136 Quotes by Chiwetel Ejiofor

I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.

This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for.

I am struck by how, walking down the street, I'm rarely made aware of my race, but that among journalists, race is absolutely massive.

Different people approach the universe in different ways, but they also approach their own expectations in different ways.

If you're looking at people like Patrice Lumumba, you are looking at people who had a very definite plan, and events overran them.

In England, theres no acknowledgement the invention of slavery came from Britain.

It's hard to tell the story if you're not involved yourself, emotionally.

The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president or the lawyer.

The Second World War simplified things like race, and people came down on very clear lines.