Danai Gurira famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I got an M.F.A. in acting from NYU, and part of our training is to learn how to use swords in combat situations in a performance and Shakespeare plays where you have to fight.
-- Danai Gurira

#Fighting #Play #Nyu
Thereâ€™s a saying in Africa, if you give a woman empowerment, you empower a community, you empower men, you empower man. When women become empowered and live in their strength itâ€™s beneficiary to others, and I think as young women today we sometimes forget that we are standing on the struggle of other women. Those women had to stand up to make a change, and they were not popular, and now weâ€™re making them unpopular again.
-- Danai Gurira

#Struggle #Men #Thinking
I always used to say hybrids would rule the world - people who have an understanding of many cultures and can relate to them with ease. And then along came Obama.
-- Danai Gurira

#People #Understanding #Culture
Zimbabweans are so smart and witty and able to weave together tons of situations and experiences into terminologies that are just utterly original.
-- Danai Gurira

#Witty #Smart #Together
You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on the screen. I want to add to that.
-- Danai Gurira

#Space #Add #Looks
You Americans, you have no idea how much your stuff infiltrates the rest of the world!
-- Danai Gurira

#Ideas #World #Stuff
My artistic spirit is not nurtured by blogospheres.
-- Danai Gurira

#Spirit #Artistic
I've always been extremely physically active.
-- Danai Gurira

#Physically Active #Active
I've always been attracted to action stuff.
-- Danai Gurira

#Stuff #Action
I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.
-- Danai Gurira

#Writing #People #Actors
I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
-- Danai Gurira

#Hate #Scared #Horror
I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
-- Danai Gurira

#Quality #Care #Salt
I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.
-- Danai Gurira

#People #Narrative
Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
-- Danai Gurira

#Book #Comic Book #Comic
A zombie apocalypse isn't the most jovial situation.
-- Danai Gurira

#Zombie #Apocalypse #Situation
I write about African women, that's really my topic. I have no shame or qualm in it because it's a very underrepresented topic, which is part of the reason I started to write.
-- Danai Gurira

#Writing #Topics #Shame
People with nothing to hide don't usually feel the need to say so
-- Danai Gurira

#People #Needs #Feels
The best characters are always wretchedly flawed
-- Danai Gurira

#Character #Flawed #Best Character
My favorite TV shows are Orange Is the New Black, House of Cards, Modern Family, and Veep.
-- Danai Gurira

#Tv Shows #Orange #House

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