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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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"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
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"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."
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"It is not age but experience that brings wisdom."
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"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."
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"I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects."
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"You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you."
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"Experience really does make you better, man."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."
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"I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness."
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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."
Experience
"Suffice it to say, I'm not poor."
Poor
"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
"As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites."
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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
"I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet."
First
"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
"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."
Now
"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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