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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

Topics: Add Crafting How Kind Lena Dunham Like Look Own Screen Space Want Women Women Are You

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I'm all about getting the training. Don't roll out of bed and say, 'I can do this.'

~Danai Gurira

Topics: About Bed Getting Out Roll Say Training I Can

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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.

~Danai Gurira

Topics: Arduous Bit Bug Enough Focus Get Go Joyful Like Long Me Must Need Often Out Painful Process Prove Saying Stories Story Tell Then Through Until Vessel Which Worthy You

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Actors may not realize the extent of their own power. Acting is creation. It's them bringing their own stuff, letting it marinate in their soul, in their creative engine.

~Danai Gurira

Topics: Acting Actor Bringing Creation Creative Engine Extent Letting May Own Power Realize Soul Stuff Them

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You have to remember that you are part of a craft, and you are constantly building your craft. Ultimately, we are artists, so it comes from us. And I think the tricky thing about being an actor is that we're looking for someone else to give us something... Thinking like an artist and thinking like an out-of-work actor are two different things.

~Danai Gurira

Topics: About Actor Artist Artists Being Building Constantly Craft Different Different Things Else Give Like Looking Part Remember Someone Something Thing Things Think Thinking Tricky Two Ultimately Us You Your I Think

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I call myself Zimerican. I was born in the Midwest to Zimbabwean parents. My father was a professor at Grinnell College in Iowa.

~Danai Gurira

Topics: Born Call College Father Iowa Midwest Myself Parents Professor I Was Born

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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.

~Danai Gurira

Topics: Affects Around Function Gender How Issues Looking Minnesota Our Outcomes People Population Psychologically Psychology Race Really Social Societal Study Those Way Why

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We moved to Zimbabwe when I was five, some years after Zimbabwe had gained independence.

~Danai Gurira

Topics: After Five Gained Had Independence Moved Some Years Zimbabwe

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Why can't black women on stage tell stories that can affect white men in the audience?

~Danai Gurira

Topics: Affect Audience Black Men Stage Stories Tell White Why Women

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It's something I've constantly found shocking - all this astounding talent amongst black women that never gets to be seen or heard.

~Danai Gurira

Topics: Amongst Astounding Black Constantly Found Gets Heard Never Seen Shocking Something Talent Women

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: February 14th, 1978

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