One of the occupational hazards of being an actor, the reason why so many actors are insecure, is that the only way… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
You can’t have people curating culture in this way when we need to see things in order to reform from them. — 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
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 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 do think how two people dance with each other is indicative of how they feel about each other. It can tell… — 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'm very aware that people find my wife and I's marriage disagreeable. But all I have to do is look at my… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
I think what a lot of people don't realize is how much being the leader of this movement weighed upon him. After… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
One of the skills you have to master in theater is the ability to make the audience believe that things that aren't… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
For me, I'm always looking for opportunities to work with people who are better than me, who are more experienced than me,… — 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
The thing that would probably surprise most people was that Dr. Martin Luther King was a very reluctant leader. He felt very… — 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
When you reflect upon the significance of Dr. King to this nation, it's criminal that he hasn't had a feature film that… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
I know for a fact the reason I'm an actor is because one, two, maybe three people when I was younger saw… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
![“I think what a lot of people don't realize is how much being the leader of this movement weighed upon him. After all, he [Dr. Martin Luter King] was only 39 years-old when he was assassinated, and only 36 during the Selma campaign. He always seemed older than he actually was, and I believe part of…” quote by David Oyelowo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/876/david-oyelowo-7952_believe_i-think-what-a-lot-of-people-don-t-reali_2056391.jpg)
