Gurira Quotes & Sayings

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

People with nothing to hide don't usually feel the need to say so — Danai Gurira

A zombie apocalypse isn't the most jovial situation. — Danai Gurira

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

If you're a fighter, you recognize a fighter. — Danai Gurira

Survival isn't lying down and saying, oh, poor me. It's finding ways to live and keep your light shining in the midst of the darkest circumstances. — Danai Gurira

[Oedipa Maas] awoke at last to find herself getting laid. — Thomas Pynchon

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

All the struggles that were fought for here in the United States for African Americans, you now enjoy the privileges of. You now come here and can enjoy privileges that were fought for by African Americans over several generations. — Danai Gurira

My favorite TV shows are Orange Is the New Black, House of Cards, Modern Family, and Veep. — Danai Gurira

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

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

I just feel like it's fascinating to me just watching my own family, seeing my cousins have children here, seeing the generations go on, and seeing how people are still very connected to their home, but are actually, of course, Americans too. That sort of a hybrided sense of self is something that I yearn to see more of expressed. — Danai Gurira

You Americans, you have no idea how much your stuff infiltrates the rest of the world! — Danai Gurira

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

The best characters are always wretchedly flawed — Danai Gurira

Eleanor went to her room where she was free to think and be wretched. — Jane Austen

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

My artistic spirit is not nurtured by blogospheres. — Danai Gurira

Importance ! What is it, sir after all ? The respect of fools, the wonder of children, the envy of the rich, the contempt of the wise man. - Barnave. — Anonymous

I've always been attracted to action stuff. — Danai Gurira

He suddenly began to look wretched, much as I had seen him look as a schoolboy: lonely: awkward: unpopular: odd; no longer the self-confident businessman into which he had grown. His face now brought back the days when one used to watch him plodding off through the drizzle to undertake the long, solitary runs across the dismal fields beyond the sewage farms: runs which were to train him for teams in which he was never included. — Anthony Powell

I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it! — Danai Gurira

I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared. — Danai Gurira

My assumption is I'm not going to be recognized. But when I am, I'm like, "Dang, you know who I am?" I always think I look so different. — Danai Gurira

Most of the books I have are indicators of my insecurity. I really wanted to be an intellectual. I really wanted to understand Sartre. I thought that was what made people smart. I have tried to read Being and Nothingness no fewer than twenty times in my life. I really thought that every answer had to be in that book. Maybe it is. The truth is, I can't read anything with any distance. Every book is a self-help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better. I underline profusely but I don't retain much. Reading is like a drug. When I am reading from these books it feels like I am thinking what is being read, and that gives me a rush. That is enough. I glean what I can. I finish some of the unfinished thoughts lingering around in my head by adding the thoughts of geniuses and I build from there. There are bookmarks in most of the denser tomes at around page 20 to 40 because that was where I said, "I get it." Then I put them back on the shelf. — Marc Maron

I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people. — Danai Gurira

There'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 it'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 we're making them unpopular again. — Danai Gurira