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"As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites."
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"I don't think they're going to pay me to play Mufasa."
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"The stars handle it very graciously. They let you know. They know how to play the game."
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"Whenever you're going to play a real person, you run the risk of well, everybody in the world kind of has an image of what that person is and who he should be and so you really have to do your homework."
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"Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile?"
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"If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterwards."
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"All I ever wanted to do was play the drums; I felt good about myself when I played the drums. So I worked anywhere and everywhere I could lug my drums in."
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"A song called Never. Which we never play. But it's a great song."
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"You have to like the characters you play."
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"Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni."
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"I'd take the syncopation and play swing, and then read the syncopation lines with my left hand."
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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
"I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet."
First
"Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience."
Experience
"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"For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else."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
"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
"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
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