- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, the terrible thing right now, and I don't know the statistics, but there's a growing concern in some communities about how rapidly people are sent from school to jail, how quickly they're put into the criminal justice system. And of course the rapidly growing number of brown people, both men and women, in prison. And this is terrible.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write plays about big, intense subjects.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because of the generation in which I came into the world, there were expectations. Of course there were expectations. It was something having to do with being a respectable Negro woman who would make the people in Baltimore proud.
- American People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We would like doctors to listen, but the fact is, we better be ready to be able to talk to them. You're going to have to be an active participant in that conversation, so I'd say the American people are going to need ways of stepping up to the conversation.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a lot of optimism about new doctors because I think it's really clear that it's a lot of hard work and no guarantee of a lot of money.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
- Medication
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- Nov 07, 2020
Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.
- Chorus
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- Nov 07, 2020
Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.
- Brave
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020