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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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"We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives."
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"I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience."
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"Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink."
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"I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future."
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"It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience."
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"I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience."
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"Experience everything but cling to what is right."
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"Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first."
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"People can really have an impact on a campaign and learn an awful lot. It can be an enjoyable experience."
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"Other than my hundreds of arrests I really don't have that much experience with the law. While the majority of people aren't corrupt, there certainly is an awful lot of corruption in this country."
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"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
"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
"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
"As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites."
Play
"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
"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."
Play
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