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The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many.
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The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.
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I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa,…
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My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have…
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This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them…
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Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is:…
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Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been…
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I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed... I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere…
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Get them to sing your song and they will want to know who you are.
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I stand here struggling for the rights of my people to be full citizens in this country. They are not-in Mississippi. They…
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In all spheres of modern life the influence of Stalin reaches wide and deep. From his last simply written but vastly discerning…
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As Americans, preserving the best of our traditions, we have the right- nay the duty-to fight for participation in the forward march…
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Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.
— Edward Bond
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In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner…
— Christopher Fry
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I write plays, and I have a musical that's starting to get produced now. That's what I would love to do, but…
— Jesse Eisenberg
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I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.
— Eric Bogosian
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You have to watch out with my plays. They're like yeast. You think they're one thing, then all of a sudden subtext…
— Horton Foote
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I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is no idea that can't…
— August Wilson
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I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to…
— Harold Pinter
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I don't think I've ever written anything even remotely naturalistic. The closest probably would be seen as 'Frankie and Johnny,' and that's…
— Terrence McNally
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Im not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me…
— Edward Albee
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My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language
— Elfriede Jelinek
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In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.
— Paul Robeson
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My fault now is making my plays too short.
— Beth Henley
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