I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made. (David Oyelowo)

I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made.

David Oyelowo

Related topics

bee black bonnet few film historical legacy living

Related quotes

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. View quote
Jonathan Swift
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all. View quote
Georges Bernanos
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things which lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. View quote
Steven Weinberg
I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer. View quote
Manuel Puig