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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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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
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"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."
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"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
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"The first is last, and the last is first."
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"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."
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"In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note."
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"I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir."
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"This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S."
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"Well, first, I didn't kill Dr. King."
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"If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass."
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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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"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."
History
"I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet."
First
"Suffice it to say, I'm not poor."
Poor
"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."
Love
"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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"As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites."
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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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