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"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"
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"Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person."
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"Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor."
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"I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours."
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"Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle."
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"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."
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"Suffice it to say, I'm not poor."
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"The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash."
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"This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."
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"The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider."
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"As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites."
Play
"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
"Suffice it to say, I'm not poor."
Poor
"Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience."
Experience
"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
"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"For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else."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
"I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet."
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