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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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"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low."

"Love and attraction is the magnetic language of the heart."

"The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance."

"When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it."
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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."


"Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience."


"For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else."


"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."


"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."


"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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