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When fatality appears in disguise it gives us an illusion of freedom and in the end always leads us into the same trap.
“A play is a blueprint of an event: a way of creating and rewriting history through the medium of literature. Since history is a recorded or remembered event, theatre, for me, is the perfect place to 'make' history--that is, because so much of African-American history has been unrecorded, dismembered, washed out, one of my tasks as a playwright is to--through literature and the special strange relationship between theatre and real-life--locate the ancestral burial ground, dig for bones, find bones, hear the bones sing, write it down.”
― The America Play and Other Works
― The America Play and Other Works
“Too much respect for people who are not respectful to you is a sure sign of insecurity.”
― The Temple of My Familiar
― The Temple of My Familiar
“It has pleased Nature so to make us that we attain happiness only by way of pain.”
― Philosophy in the Bedroom
― Philosophy in the Bedroom
“Life is too short to be lived badly.”
― Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
― Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
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