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"You know, this isn't theatre like it used to be."
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"I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot."
"This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays."
"I started out doing theater and a soap in New York and that's... sort of what I got stuck in. I was blessed enough to have long runs, and it's sort of hard sometimes then to get out."
"I used to stand outside the theater knowing the truant officer was looking for me. I would stand there 'til someone came along and then ask them to buy my ticket."
"Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it."
"Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic."
"We may have limped onto Broadway as the underdogs, but underdogs bite back occasionally."
"I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York."
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"I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman."
"Don't think you are going to go on forever because you are not and begin to plan something that will compensate as you reduce your capacities to leap or turn on this or that or the other, begin thinking of something else."
"Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town."
"I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people."
"Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony."
"My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa."
"We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the Appalachian of this area, but at the same time, just as we have the Haitian room, we will always have room for another exhibit."
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