Wangechi Mutu Quotes

A lot of interviewers are looking for the dark side. They want to know about the depths of your despair and fear.

Over time, it's occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or feeling uncomfortable about.

I want to investigate what scares me and worries me.

One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're having a hard time.

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.

There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

I think as an actor you have to be open to your emotions - that's how you tap into other characters. Besides, by being so open I've come to terms with how screwed I am!

I try to find what is closest to me in the character. There's many sides to personality, but it's a matter of, do you entertain those specific areas of your personality, or are you afraid to entertain them?

I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.

We are defined by our weak moments.

The price of confessing is to be confronted with the truth of who you are - you have to bear your faults, your frailties.

I had no idea who I was when I started. I was frightened to death and had no natural performing skills.

I realised that people respond to banal things. They don't accept their own history, not participating in acceptance within their own being.

I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.

Whenever we feel shame, it's a mark of some deep investment or deep internal struggle.

I've learned to use things like softness and vulnerability as weapons against the things you feel ashamed of in yourself.

Subconsciously - I didn't know it then, I realize it today when I know a little bit more about the mind and the brain - I fought like I didn't deserve to live.

One thing I learned about that I always knew about myself - that I always been afraid of myself.

I trust you to find the good in me, but the bad I must be sure you don't overlook.

If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.

Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation.

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.