"Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice."

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Source : "David Oyelowo creates a tortured soul in HBO's 'Nightingale'". Interview with Lynn Elber, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. May 28, 2015.

David Oyelowo

#Excellence Quotes #Prejudice Quotes #Weapons Quotes

“Maybe if literature was prohibited the same way as cocaine, people out of pure curiosity would try to get a couple of lines”
“We are all hostages of time. We each have the same number of minutes and hours to live within a day, yet to me it didn't feel equally doled out. My illness brought me such an abundance of time that time was nearly all I had. My friends had so little time that I often wished I could give them what time I could not use. It was perplexing how in losing health I had gained something so coveted but to so little purpose.”
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
“The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.”
“There are few who would need advisers, if they were only accustomed to appeal to themselves in their calmest, holiest moments. If, when embarrassed with doubt as to any course of action, they would turn aside from the immediate tumult of the world, and from the vain speaking of those who "darken counsel by words without knowledge;" and would then commune with their hearts alone, at night, the heavens their silent counsellors, they would act not always in accordance with the wise men of this world, but with that wisdom which bringeth peace.”
“Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.”
“Everyone is a creative agent. ... The tools are your imagination and your imagination is limitless.”
“So few grown women like their lives.”

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