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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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"I held out a lead figurine of Hades-the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter.Nico hesitated. "I don't play that game anymore. It's for kids.""It's got four thousand attack power," I coaxed."Five thousand," Nico corrected. "But only if your opponent attacks first."I smiled. "Maybe it's okay to still be a kid once in a while."
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"Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile?"
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"Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go."
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"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."
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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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"When you can hear a violinist, that is better than you, then you learn from him, because if you play with somebody who is worse than you, then you go down."
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"We have different personalities, but in a harmonious way, I'd say. Anyway, we were booked to play at the festival as a duo; and we decided we wouldn't have any rehearsal."
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"We try to treat everywhere we play differently and that's really important."
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"I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him."
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"I don't think they're going to pay me to play Mufasa."
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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."
Awards
"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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"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."
Experience
"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
"Suffice it to say, I'm not poor."
Poor
"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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"I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet."
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