Quotes from Danai Gurira

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

I grew up in Harare, Zimbabwe. And I had a pretty idyllic childhood. I felt that I was kind of this outspoken girl, I was considered. I was a girl who talked a lot and didn't think my voice had any less value than anyone around me. Apparently, that was strange.

A zombie apocalypse isn't the most jovial situation.

I often feel like a nutty professor, like I'm going to try this experiment and see if it works. My hypothesis is, people in the West can absorb African women stories without any shaken or stirred mixer. It can come directly from the source.

I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.

We are used to women's narratives being defined through the male perspective. I challenge that as a concept.

You Americans, you have no idea how much your stuff infiltrates the rest of the world!

I write about African women, that's really my topic. I have no shame or qualm in it because it's a very underrepresented topic, which is part of the reason I started to write.

My artistic spirit is not nurtured by blogospheres.

I'm a child of academics.

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

If a story is telling a truth, then why shouldn't it affect everybody?

I've always been attracted to action stuff.