Racism Quotes by David Oyelowo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't have a tailor, but I do love clothes.

— David Oyelowo

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

I feel television is in a fantastically rich vein of what it's presenting both by opportunity to actors and to audiences.

— David Oyelowo

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

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.

— David Oyelowo

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

I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance.

— David Oyelowo

Africa is trying to find its way back to a sense of itself, when much of that was lost through colonization.

— David Oyelowo