I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
Don't send me your script if you want me to play the black best friend; I just won't do that. — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person. — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
Because I was aspirational, I did my work, I was respectful to my teachers, I experienced a lot of bullying from the… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
I have been in films before where people have been in a rush to label them as a Black film or even… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people.… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
Sunday at 11 o'clock is the most segregated hour in America. You have black churches; you have white churches; you have Hispanic… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
I love that as a black person I've experienced not being a minority. I think that's helped me to combat the minority… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
I think that having a black president in this country has been a seismic shift, in terms of what has been going… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
I think that having a black president in America has been a seismic shift, in terms of what has been going on… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
As you know, Sunday at 11 o'clock is the most segregated hour in America. You have black churches; you have white churches;… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
I think until Britain acknowledges just how much of a presence black people had here before the Sixties, then there are certain… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
I truly believe slavery is why, as a by-product, we still have a disproportionate amount of black men incarcerated in the USA.… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
There is still a fundamental misunderstanding, when it comes to observing that when someone is black and someone is white, then that… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, everyone knows what it is to be loved and to aspire to love someone, to want to be… — David Oyelowo Copy Share
I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in America is a spirit of repentance about the injustices of slavery… — David Oyelowo Copy Share
As you know, Sunday at 11 o'clock is the most segregated hour in America. You have black churches; you have white churches; you have… — David Oyelowo Copy Share
If you merely focus on what we already know, then it's not revelatory. You may as well just go and watch a documentary or… — David Oyelowo Copy Share
I basically enjoy doing films that are about something, that have complex roles that I can sink my teeth into. Basically, I gravitate to… — David Oyelowo Copy Share
In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people. There are… — David Oyelowo Copy Share
We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past. — David Oyelowo Copy Share
I am a father, I am very aware of the things that I'm putting out in the world knowing that one day my children… — David Oyelowo Copy Share
I feel television is in a fantastically rich vein of what it's presenting both by opportunity to actors and to audiences. — David Oyelowo Copy Share
I do think how two people dance with each other is indicative of how they feel about each other. It can tell a lot… — David Oyelowo Copy Share
People have compact to go beyond our own culture and upbringing to a degree that I think we don't acknowledge enough really. — David Oyelowo Copy Share
I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance. — David Oyelowo Copy Share
Africa is trying to find its way back to a sense of itself, when much of that was lost through colonization. — David Oyelowo Copy Share
