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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.
- Nov 07, 2020
Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black Americans, to make a connection with our past in order to determine the kind of future we're going to have. In other words, we simply need to know who we are in relation to our historical presence in America.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.
- Particular
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't write for a particular audience.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch it. I saw half of 'Oprah' one time. I'd rather read.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My hero when I was 14 was Sonny Liston. No matter what kinds of problems you were having with your parents or at school, whatever, Sonny Liston would go and knock guys out, and that made it all right.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020