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"I think there can be this perception that, people who have some kind of practice, whether it's meditation or spiritual practice or whatever, have got it all figured out, and there's a kind of righteousness about it."
"Progress doesn’t go in a straight line. Representation moves forward, then retreats. It’s a journey. I don’t know what the final destination looks like, or if there even is one. It’s just about pushing forward."
"Those excluding people of colour are robbing themselves – they just don’t realise it."
"Whatever choices you make in life, it’s OK – there’s more life, you know?"
"You can’t get a complete history of anything in two hours – particularly the slave trade."
"Ultimately it’s a case of sink or swim, ‘I’ve always had that “sink-or-swim” thing about my own career too,At difficult moments, it’s like: “Okay, you’re not gonna sink so let’s figure something out.” Take a moment, have a whinge... and then get on with it.’"
"I think that’s something that you have to keep learning and recalibrating and experiencing through life."
"Making a film with a 99% Black female cast is great, but if we are not allowed to explore what our hairstyles will look like or if we're not allowed to imbue the film and our characters in the story with details that are specific to our experience, then it doesn't mean anything."
"You don’t want to be a freedom fighter every time you enter a job."
"You know, always being positive, always wanting to try things, even if at first glance, it isn’t quite clear what the outcome is going to be."
"You can’t say Shakespeare has nothing to offer because he’s a white man."
"It’s funny how people think that we just jump on stage and start yapping yet we spend time preparing for the best show"
"I still get nervous at times for not knowing what kind or size of the audience to expect or even how they will receive you because it’s always a different reception"
"From his stories told with a tough face, everyone in the family is crazy in their own way, We are all comedians by nature because we find fun in almost everything."
"My husband is part of my jokes and I have put him on stage sometimes; so he is supportive of my journey"
"The experience of having my first child has shown me to wait on God. I do not know what I want, I don't know when I will get what I want. I just pray for grace and good health."
"It is easy to make people laugh if you do not make them sit and scratch about the things that you are talking about because social problems apply to everyone"
"Whatever profession it is you are in, you know that you want to get back home and deal with the society within your reach so if you want to touch so many people you have to look for a subject that touches everyone."
"Unlike Americans, in Africa, it is not easy to become famous within a short time. So I better focus on my businesses. I have kids and music will require so much of my time because I have to be on tour all through."
"The youth will love agriculture because it goes hand in hand with beauty."
"One thing I learnt, I've never listened to people. It made me realise I'm a bad listener, it has tended to help me check on that. And as a facilitator it is important that my listening becomes very, very powerful. It helped me enormously to improve relationships between me and my son. We listen to each other a lot now."
"Of Course, also, we were surprised that those young people were there, but they had grouped themselves and they wanted to stay and of course our immediate reaction was 'these are too young' but their parents also said they wanted them to be involved. Now a number of them were orphans,who were being assisted by some of their relatives. Some, maybe one or two, had their parents, but the older people felt that these girls should be involved, because they know most of the facts from their health education program which is in their school curriculum. In their primary health education they meet with these things. So their involvement in this workshop would not only address some of their immediate problems, but also the future. They found it very useful."
"Those of the 14-16 year olds seem to have all been sexually abused, not that they have boyfriends, but they have been abused by men in society, in their community."
"What the boys are saying, is that any boy seeing a beautiful girl would be excited, would be attracted to that girl, but the mini-skirt exposes so much of them that they find that they want to see more of the girls! That was their request. But then the community said of course, that there is freedom, freedom of what people can do: but that the young girls should know, they should not jump on any fashion that comes, they should know the risks they are taking in putting on things like that."
"The older men's request was for the women to be faithful. This is an urban situation, and one of the problems we found out about early on in Entebbe, was that the man would come back and go to the beer place and drink. The woman, of course, being neglected at home would walk out and go to another place to drink and the children would be left alone. One of the women’ dramas showed that: one of the boys became a drug addict, the girl got pregnant and the parents had to resolve all the problems by getting back together."
"I’ve been so busy DYING. I’ve been dying to a version of myself that no longer served me or the purpose I was created for. It’s been one truly trying but rewarding journey"
"A journey that’s seen me through 3 surgeries, 3 cancer scares, depression, anxiety, a 20KG weight gain and a series of immeasurable losses of friends,family and loved ones."
"My faith was indeed built up, let me echo the many voices that have said it before, we serve a mighty God. Seek him, truly seek him with your broken and contrite heart. That’s his version of a true sacrifice."
"Please allow me to testify! God is simply amazing, because for every tear we cry he gives us double for our trouble and he does this more often than we may stop to acknowledge. Indeed “In the pain was a plan.”"
"I just thought it was time,I loved what it stood for (beauty with a purpose) and I do like a challenge. It was also a means for mw to break out of my shell a little more"
"I was disappointed but only for a minute,throughout my life,I’ve come to learn that if it’s meant to be yours,it will be.I lose gracefully,but I win even better"
"A career in entertainment.I just got into Television.I hope to break into acting and radio as well. But business will always be my number one passion"
"Everyone asks that question like there is a profound answer. An earth-shattering moment when I made the drastic decision to come home. Nothing happened for me. My career in Hollywood was steadily rising but, for me, it was time to come home"
"I am afraid not. Being in front of the camera is not something I relish anymore. I prefer being behind the lens and writing my own scripts and telling my own stories."
"Kampala did, especially the music industry here and the rise in the pursuit of the ultimate lifestyle that has sprung up in Kampala."
"It was actually a fun process and I learned a lot from it. Like anything you experience all sorts on hiccups minor and major and this case, I would say financing."
"I do kickboxing, martial arts; I do Pilates on different days. Literally my best thing to do is martial arts, because I pretend I am hitting people and I just visualise who pissed me off."
"Yes. Some people feel me and my mother are unhealthily close. I look like my father, but I am my mother; like, this is her character! She is my best friend. She is the best antidote. By the time I leave at 9:30, I feel like I’m Superwoman."
"Oh yes. It is almost like she needs therapy for that, but she is my number one fan. My mum says, ‘I don’t know how you do it, but my God, you’re doing alright!’ So, when you hear that most mornings, [especially] as a mother of three… [aged nine, five and three]."
"The radio started playing songs we sang for plays, and somehow people kept requesting them. When CBS started Enkuka, we were curated as performers; generally, one thing led to the other, and people started asking for more songs."
"At the time, theatre was very popular; the experience was always big at shows; theatre was a thing."
"I could say I accidentally became a recording artiste."
"There was a time I attended a Bakayimbira [show] and the auditorium was flat; since I was short, I couldn’t see anything. I had to stand on a bench."
"I think through the play, they managed to notice that they were being a burden. That’s how much theatre resonated with the people then,"
"We were doing things that were close to people’s hearts and things that they could relate to easily; we knew that theatre is about society and impacting on it to change, so we used to do issues about family so that people could feel like they were watching themselves and would change."
"“I have been rejected ever since I was young"
"I felt hurt; having no one besides me yet I had a family,"
"Even your parents will love you more when you have something to put on the table.”"
"I thank Victoria University for introducing this wonderful Career Readiness & Employability Program. You don’t know tears outside there; tears of a first-class graduate hustling for a job but without skill, tears of a parent who used all she had to teach her child but after graduation has to cough money to start a business for that same child"
"We want change but I have learnt that change starts with us. I want to fight for ladies; you deserve to have the best quality of pads. I want us to practice good hygiene because great hygiene is essential to us women,’"
"If God decides that, I am gonna go for it. I’ll do it, I said no to marriage but not no to children. Me, there are things that are not for you and you just have to understand. Marriage is not for me, this arrangement is not for me."
"“I am an independent woman, who only needs a man when the need arises. I cannot fool myself that getting married will seal our relationship forever.”"
"“I have been rejected ever since I was young. But instead of bending me, rejection has made me work even harder.”"
"“They say I can’t sing, but I am unique, and that helps me stand out.”"
"“80% of my achievements in life have come from music, while the remaining 20% is also connected to my relationships within the industry.”"
"“I have someone in my life. I picked him from a line of men interested in me. He is very powerful, rich, and intelligent.”"
"“I only need a man when I want him and not that illusion of getting married and walking down the aisle.”"
"“It’s time for the Ugandan government to truly invest in the creative industry. Artists need real support systems.”"
"I knew right from the time I was about 6 years. I always stayed close to where music was and nothing else mattered in that moment. I wasn’t affected by other views as such, simply because my parents were the complete opposite. They were liberal and very supportive."
"You don’t heal from the loss of your child. It’s the most heartbreaking thing to go through for any parent. My world literally came crushing down. You only learn how to survive through each day by the grace of God. My experience has been a very painful and personal one. Not a day goes by that I don’t think about Keron. I thank God for strengthening me."
"I never really think about it like that. Lol. I’m just a normal person like anybody else, who happens to have been raised by wonderful very humble parents."
"My dad Prince Gerald Manyindo . Him and I were the best of friends. I could literally tell him anything cause raising us, he’d taught us to respect him but not be afraid of him. My dad and I both loved music so much so we had a lot to talk about. I miss him everyday."
"Absolutely. It was very scary. I was young and didn’t have a clear musical direction. But we knew from the start that it wasn’t gonna be a long term thing cause at some point Iryn was going to move to France. So in a way I was mentally prepared."
"Once you start to become more aware of different things and look at the bigger picture, it’s not so black and white"
"Another thing I got from living in Uganda is that there’s such a strong sense of community; everyone who lived in that village was considered my family."
"I’ve never really had somewhere that feels like home."
"I was very exposed to a different world of art and culture and different philosophies, and I feel grateful for that because it helped shape my idea of the world"
"Growing up in Uganda, I saw a lot of white people, but I never felt like a minority—I thought this is what it’s like everywhere"
"When we moved to Vancouver, my mother had to relearn a lot of things—the only things that she really got to bring with her were her religion and her culture"
"My family has always been quite theatrical just in our being"
"That was my introduction to character study and acting as a means of understanding people and relationships"
"When I moved to New York, it was the first time I felt that I could live for myself and try different things"
"But I also am a firm believer that it’s about the people you have around you"
"In Uganda, I would never have thought of doing this job. Not because it doesn’t happen there but because it’s as if, in my mind and in my family’s mind, we already had a completely different path mapped out for our lives. Instead, Canada has opened up new opportunities for me that I could not have imagined"
"I feel like when you’re putting too much pressure on something it tends to combust, so you have to find pockets of different creative release"
"Even though acting is a creative outlet, it’s not something that you can do by yourself unless you’re reading scripts or analyzing movies"
"I want to experiment and push myself to see how far I can go. I’m down for anything that’s as far from me as possible. So whatever that means to you, to whoever’s reading this, I just want to do that. I want to do some crazy shit"
"In Uganda, the culture that you’re born into is kind of what you follow throughout the rest of your life, but when I came here, it felt more like I had the option to be my own person and choose where I wanted my life to go."