Cynthia Erivo Quotes
The thing that disturbs me the most, being in England, is that on the screen we don't see very many of us - there aren't very many black girls. They don't make the roles for us, or they don't see us in those roles.
Quotes to Explore
-
The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
-
I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
-
Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
-
I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
-
Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.
-
I am a newspaper columnist and a professional screenwriter, but my real love is the novel for all the room it has for characters to come alive and breathe and face their challenges.
-
If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.
-
It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.
-
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
-
I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
-
For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of trouble committing crimes and stuff. Music gave me something to focus on.
-
People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
-
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
-
I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
-
I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
-
According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.
-
I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.
-
Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
-
Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
-
If I start feeling down I'll gorge myself on pasta. That usually does the trick. It's the Italian blood in me.
-
I was lucky to get into drama school and become a professional actor. No-one ever mentioned the colour of my skin. It's only when I came out of RADA - the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art - that I suddenly realised people started to refer to me as a black actor.
-
Labels and classifications of any type are not law, nor are they written in stone. It's up to us to be aware of this and confront it and break through it by doing things that shock and surprise people because they thought we could never achieve at that level.
-
The thing that disturbs me the most, being in England, is that on the screen we don't see very many of us - there aren't very many black girls. They don't make the roles for us, or they don't see us in those roles.
