Wole Soyinka Quotes
My interest in culture generally is a comparative one, and I think that's where the word joy, I think, can be applicable. There's joy in actually seeing the relatedness, the connectedness of different cultures or recognising, for instance, your own culture in another or another culture in your own culture and feeling an air to all of them.
Wole Soyinka
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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
Carine Roitfeld
I want to pursue a career in film.
O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
Edmund White
I stay true because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character. It's the thing that connects him to me and to everybody else. So, the search is the same. It's to unveil the truth, and that's how I stay true, because my purpose isn't altered.
Forest Whitaker
It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
F. H. Bradley
I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open.
Valerie Simpson
I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
Victoria Jackson
Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
Natassia Malthe
While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.
Gabourey Sidibe
The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.
Edgar Ramirez
Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
Damon Wayans
My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
