- Nov 07, 2020
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through the arts, you can impact upon people's attitudes, values, and understandings.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an artist and as a Black woman coming out of a background that emphasizes service, there are certain responsibilities that I must assume. I see these responsibilities not as a burden, but as an extension of what I am.
- Decided
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I was 12, I had decided to be an artist.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Broadway musicals like 'Ain't Misbehavin',' 'Eubie' and 'Bubblin' Brown Sugar' depict blacks having a light, wonderful time and that was just not so for blacks in the '20s and '30s.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black youth, in general, have no understanding of our past. Young black people who don't know who Martin Luther King Jr. was, don't know nothin'.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Within the theater lies the power to stimulate and alter the hearts and minds of both the privileged and those who have too long been denied.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
In life, I had to be prim and proper and poised - The King Daughter. But acting, I could be the zany, silly, sometimes foolish person that I am. I could let the raw edges show.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother supported me from the beginning and never said you should be an activist or civil rights leader or minister.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
A feeling of self worth is the best accomplishment we can foster in our prisons.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
And you don't have to be a preacher to carry on. That's why I've gone into the theater, with my mother's blessings, and someday I may write, produce and act in my own story of daddy's life. There are so many sides to his story. I hope that someday I could get that opportunity.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Til I was about eight or nine, I had no awareness he was anybody special. Since all our friends were in the movement, I thought what Daddy did was natural. Everybody went to jail, right? Then, one day some kids at school called my daddy a jailbird, and it upset me. That was the beginning of my awareness.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
You see, for the most part it was a normal upbringing. Sure, there was the Nobel Peace award; sure, there were people coming to our house who I knew were famous. But we grew up in a very modest part of the community. Our last home was in what had been one of the worst ghettos in Atlanta.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote my first play when I was eight. It was about a queen, and I - of course! - was the queen.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given my belief that there is a divine purpose for my father's life on this planet, given the way I was raised, it's real hard to get angry. I get that from my daddy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020