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There was nothing to aspire to, no one to honor. Sojourner Truth wasn't a big enough role model for me. I couldn't go around abolishing slavery. Ntozake Shange

Truth Me Honor Big Nothing Enough Abolish No-One Around Go Big Enough Model Role Role Model Aspire Slavery

Multiculturalism isn't about culture, it's about power. Ntozake Shange

Culture Power About Multiculturalism

I was chastised for writing several obituaries for Malcolm X, exploring different aspects of his writing. One teacher in particular told me, didn't I think I was beating a dead horse? and dismissively threw my paper on my desk. Ntozake Shange

I never intended to go to Broadway. I was very happy being in an Off Broadway theater and having an Off Broadway life. What it did to me is try to fit a round peg - that's me - into a whole bunch of square buildings. I just didn't fit. Ntozake Shange

What I learned was that we Millennials possess one factor that supposedly sets us apart from those who came before us. Is it incredibly clear skin, since most of us took Accutane at some point? No. The recurring description of our generation is 'entitled.' Paul Downs Colaizzo

Generation Entitled Before Skin Sets Incredibly Took Our Our Generation Possess Those Some Point Factor Clear Recurring Since Supposedly Most Learned Came Apart Us Who Description Millennials

People in their early 20s are not often considered the target demographic for new plays; musicals have had much more success in exploring that coming-of-age period of life. Paul Downs Colaizzo

Life Success People Considered Musicals More Had New Period Demographic Target Often Much Exploring Early Early 20s Plays

There's so much to argue about. That was the goal with 'Really Really.' Somebody asked me once, 'How should I feel when I leave?' and I said, 'Hopefully, you're talkative.' I don't really care if you're happy or sad or loved it or hated it or hate me. The goal is that you have something to say, that you have a response. Paul Downs Colaizzo

Sad Me You Happy Hate Care Somebody Once Say Response Hopefully Hated About Something Argue Feel Talkative Said How Leave Goal Loved Asked Much Really Should

The South has a way of worshipping appearances - the suburbs are all about presentation and amazing flowers and a beautiful yard and dinner parties that impress people and having the Christmas lights just right. Paul Downs Colaizzo

I think the hardest thing I've had to learn is that just because people might speak a certain way in real life doesn't mean it's engaging in the theater. Paul Downs Colaizzo

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece. Peter Shaffer

Music Character Key Piece Verbal Rhetoric

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created. Peter Shaffer

You Doctor Passion Destroyed See Cannot Created Medical

Art and literature are my surrogate religions. Peter Shaffer

Art Religions Surrogate Literature

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting. Peter Shaffer

Painting London New York New York Oil Watercolor

Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play. Peter Shaffer

You Dark Light Comedy Black Black Comedy Exactly Given Lights Know Reversing Any Any Given Moment Anybody Where Convention Chinese Farce Full Full-On Moment Play Played

But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. Peter Shaffer

First Own Detective Detective Story My Own Did Story Novel Published Thing

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know. Peter Shaffer

You Writing Soil Think Books Out About Writer He Like Know Endemic Move Just Place Them Grow Plays

I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character. Peter Shaffer

Music Character First Think Possibly Leading Film

It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses. Peter Shaffer

Man Experience Sex Girl First Young Satisfied Difficult Playwright Immensely Scene Horses Write He Attractive Blinds His Lot Up Very Gets Which Young Man Fully Deep Whom Event Found

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious. Peter Shaffer

Tend Race Tedious

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London. Peter Shaffer

Spent London Adolescence Opposed Childhood Actual

They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me, it was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that of course, the audience were not seeing masks moving at all. Peter Shaffer

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