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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 got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me."
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"I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming."
"Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile?"
"But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great."
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"Some of the onus falls on us to make ourselves available for the ball, because we need to play inside-out. That's when we're at our best."
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"There's another girl who was going to play Hilary Faye and luckily she wound up not doing it."
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"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."
"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."
"Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience."
"For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else."
"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."
"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."
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