Danai Gurira Quotes

Brains and a sense of humor trump everything else.

The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or devise something else.

Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can’t drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the dexterity of our feet. If we can’t have ham, we will boil chitterlings; if we are given rotten peaches, we will make cobblers; if given scraps, we will make quilts; take away our drums, and we will clap our hands. We prove the human spirit will prevail. We will take what we have to make what we need. We need confidence in our knowledge of who we are.

A good wit will make use of anything.

I think with a lot of filmmakers, their first film is their best film because they had to think on their feet and solve problems with ingenuity.

You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.

Since I was younger I've been making the best out of nothing.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together.

Sometimes when you're given hurdles, it makes you more creative in the end.

I learned from both my parents that you had to be clever.

The world's been pretty good at coming up with new ways of doing things.

One day, my bike tire broke miles from home and I found a way to fix it. That's what I learned: Even if you don't have all the tools, you can improvise.

Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.

It's amazing how resourceful you can become when you're in the middle of the ocean and there's only one way to get to the other side.

Digression is the soul of wit.

Lots of ingenuity gets you through times with no money better than money gets you through times of no ingenuity.

I can't remember exactly the first thing I wrote, but one of the stories, was about a pilot whose plane crashed on a desert island, and the only other life on the island was a brown cow with yellow spots. The cow had... to survive, had taught itself to eat and get nutriments from sand. I guess, I've always been interested in adaptability and taking whatever life hands you and running with it.

The genius is making a way out of no way.

It's not about your resources, it's about your resourcefulness .

Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence.

Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.

I have taken to living by my wits.

It's not resources but resourcefulness that ultimately makes the difference.

Me having no education. I had to use my brains.