David Oyelowo

At the end of the day, everyone knows what it is to be loved and to aspire to love someone, to want…

— David Oyelowo

I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in America is a spirit of repentance about the injustices…

— 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;…

— 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…

— David Oyelowo

I basically enjoy doing films that are about something, that have complex roles that I can sink my teeth into. Basically, I…

— 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.…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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

I'm one of those actors who says, "Point me toward the work that matters to me and I don't care where you're…

— David Oyelowo

Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine.

— David Oyelowo

There's a nimble quality to the way a television actor can work. When that muscle gets strong it's a very valuable thing.

— David Oyelowo

I'm very aware of how much movies, literature and art affect culture. They are a reflection of the world around us and…

— David Oyelowo

The thing that would probably surprise most people was that Dr. Martin Luther King was a very reluctant leader. He felt very…

— David Oyelowo

One of the things the BBC does better than anyone is period drama.

— David Oyelowo

You can’t have people curating culture in this way when we need to see things in order to reform from them.

— David Oyelowo

There is still a fundamental misunderstanding, when it comes to observing that when someone is black and someone is white, then that…

— David Oyelowo

I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in the USA is a spirit of repentance about the…

— David Oyelowo

I hear God as an audible voice.

— David Oyelowo