- Forgiveness
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Merchant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't read Ibsen, Shaw, Shakespeare - except 'The Merchant of Venice' in ninth grade. I'm not familiar with 'Death of a Salesman.' I haven't read Tennessee Williams.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities.
- Moving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Keep your hands moving. Writing is rewriting.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anything you want to know, you ask the characters.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to explore, in terms of the life I know best, those things which are common to all cultures.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.
- Each Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to the main branch of the Carnegie Library in Oakland where they had all the books in the world... I felt suddenly liberated from the constraints of a pre-arranged curriculum that labored through one book in eight months.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pittsburgh is a very hard city, especially if you're black.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like most people, I have this sort of love-hate relationship with Pittsburgh. This is my home, and at times I miss it and find it tremendously exciting, and other times I want to catch the first thing out that has wheels.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't always value the ways black people talked. I thought, in order to make art out of it, you had to change it.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can you be? How can you know what to do? We have our history. We have our book, and that is the blues.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first wife is a good woman, I still can't say nothing bad about her other than the fact that we had a difference on religion. She wanted someone who was a Muslim who shared those values. And I was like a heathen. I had to stay home on Sundays and watch the football game.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020