Words matter. These are the best Danai Gurira Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It’s something I’ve constantly found shocking – all this astounding talent amongst black women that never gets to be seen or heard.
I want women and girls of African descent and of color to be able to not have to keep searching for stories about themselves.
I work with writers whom I believe to be true storytellers. And because I’m a writer, I pay very keen attention to their vision. I find that so fueling creatively because, in telling those stories, you use everything you’ve got. You come away with battle scars. It’s gratifying and invigorating.
If my work is on the stage, you can be rested assured I’m going to make use of it as a platform for activism as much as possible.
My artistic spirit is not nurtured by blogospheres.
Why can’t black women on stage tell stories that can affect white men in the audience?
If a story is telling a truth, then why shouldn’t it affect everybody?
I like to focus on stories that need to be told and are not told enough. When I get bit by that bug, and the story is saying, ‘You must tell me,’ I then go through a process which is often painful and arduous, and long – and joyful! – of submitting to the story until I prove a worthy enough vessel to get it out.
I was in a very multi-racial, multi-cultural schooling system. I had a really delightful childhood. I was a jock. I became a very competitive swimmer in Zimbabwe. I was a swimmer, a tennis player, a hockey player. Then, when I was 13, I joined a Children’s Performing Arts workshop in Zimbabwe.
We are used to women’s narratives being defined through the male perspective. I challenge that as a concept.
A zombie apocalypse isn’t the most jovial situation.
I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don’t like getting scared.
I want to see women of African descent shine.
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.
I call myself Zimerican. I was born in the Midwest to Zimbabwean parents. My father was a professor at Grinnell College in Iowa.
Zimbabweans are so smart and witty and able to weave together tons of situations and experiences into terminologies that are just utterly original.
I went to grad school because I wanted to learn the rules so I would know how to break them. Breaking the rules is saying, ‘I’m breaking in, OK? I’m breaking in your very comfortable little house over here, and I’m going to take a room.’
I went to Macalester in Minnesota to study social psychology, the study of why people do what they do. I was really looking at race, population, gender, and how we psychologically function in a way that affects our societal outcomes around those issues.
I’m not only a person of color, I’m also a woman. And I’m not only a woman, I’m also a woman from the Third World. All those elements put together means I have a lot to do.
I’ve always been extremely physically active.
