Anilea

“Judge: But why would that make it possible for you to fool Monsieur Gallimard? Please--get to the point.
Song: One, because when he finally met his fantasy woman, he wanted more than anything to believe that she was, in fact, a woman. And second, I am an Oriental. And being an Oriental, I could never be completely a man.”
― David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly

“It has pleased Nature so to make us that we attain happiness only by way of pain.”
― Marquis de Sade, Philosophy in the Bedroom

“Every man, deep down, knows he's a worthless piece of shit.”
― Valerie Solanas

“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.”
― Suzan-Lori Parks, The America Play and Other Works