Achieve Quote by George C. Wolfe

American musicals are, for the most part, about boys, or boyish pursuits and aspirations - the fantasy of freedom and resolve - and those…

— Hilton Als

Myself, I believe that black theatre continues to evolve, and the success of writers like Bola Agbaje and Rachel De-lahay is proof that fresh…

— David Harewood

I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut out of…

— August Wilson

My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental.

— Suzan-Lori Parks

I feel like I'm put in a position where I have to engage with what people bring to my work, which is an expectation…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Although the civil-rights movement did a lot to change how black life was dramatized on the American stage in the fifties and sixties, white…

— Hilton Als

I am not defined as a black writer in the Caribbean, but as soon as I go to America or the U.K., my place…

— Derek Walcott

Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

— Toni Morrison

I believe it's important to have equal opportunities as a black actor. My way of fighting for it is through my art, by not…

— Malachi Kirby

I realized with Broadway everything written for black people is usually written in the past, and I'm kind of a contemporary guy. I don't…

— Chris Rock

I think most actors go into the business thinking, 'I can play everything. Why can't I play a black woman? Just give me a…

— Eric McCormack

Honestly, I had a very realistic, probably pessimistic outlook at the beginning of my career post-graduation of drama school. In general, I would see…

— Betty Gabriel