As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
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I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
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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.
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Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
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For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Troy [slow, methodical]: Woman... I do the best I can do. I come home every Friday. I carry a sack of potatoes and a bucket of lard. You all line up at the door with your hands out. I give you the lint from my pockets. I give you my sweat and blood. I ain't got no tears. I done spent them. I get up on Monday morning... find my lunch on the table. I go out. Make my way. Find my strength to carry me through to the next Friday. [Pause] That's all I've got Rose. That's all I've got to give. I can't give nothing else.
line from Fences, Act I, Scene 3 by August Wilson (1983)
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