Quotes by Suzan-Lori Parks - Page 1

Youre only yourself when no ones watching!
Suzan-Lori Parks / Playwright
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Quality is like quantity, but there's a lot less of it.
Suzan-Lori Parks / Playwright
Quality
Quantity
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Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.
Suzan-Lori Parks / Playwright
Opportunity
Compassion
Difficulty
Reflection
Self
Creates
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Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth.
Suzan-Lori Parks / Playwright
Growth
Heaven Sent
Perfect
Seeds
Each
Holds
Moment
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I don't read reviews. I refuse to have my ego inflated or deflated by someone I don't know.
Suzan-Lori Parks / Playwright
Reviews
Inflated
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My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library.
Suzan-Lori Parks / Playwright
Army
Father
Favorite Places
Library
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Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.
Suzan-Lori Parks / Playwright
Distance
Play
Writing
Love Time History
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My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental.
Suzan-Lori Parks / Playwright
African American
Broadway
Plays
Stylistically
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One could get locked in by the Pulitzer, thinking, 'This is who I am.' Doors open with it, but doors in your mind could close.
Suzan-Lori Parks / Playwright
Doors
Locked
Thinking Mind Your
Thinking Mind I Am
Pulitzer
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I learned that if we embrace what's happening, we are also embracing what is possible - and a road opens up for God to meet us halfway.
Suzan-Lori Parks / Playwright
Embrace
Halfway
Possible
Happening
Learned
Meet
Opens
Road
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And as you walk yr road, as you live yr life, RELISH THE ROAD. And relish the fact that the road of yr life will probably be a windy road.
Suzan-Lori Parks / Playwright
Facts
Walks
Windy
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I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means.
Suzan-Lori Parks / Playwright
Issues
Mean
Thinking
Writing
Everyone Else
Involves
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I don't care what anybody says. Stick to the spirit of the play and you're doing it right. It's about embracing the spirit of the text instead of noodling some idea about things.
Suzan-Lori Parks / Playwright
Care
Don't Care
Anybody
Idea
Embracing
Instead
Stick
Says
Text
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I knew that I was learning one of the most important lessons of my life: that instead of waiting for the perfect opportunity, I should work toward a realization that every opportunity is perfect.
Suzan-Lori Parks / Playwright
Inspirational
Opportunity
Perfect
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Someone yelled at me once, 'You never write about yourself.' People used to get so mad at me for that. But my definition of myself is completely up for grabs. I'm everywhere, just like we all are.
Suzan-Lori Parks / Playwright
Mad
Everywhere
Myself Yourself Me
Definition
Myself Me Yourself
Yelled
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I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially Now, Voyager, Casablanca, Mildred Pierce; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and Paper Moon by Peter Bogdanovich.
Suzan-Lori Parks / Playwright
Beautiful
Black And White
Moon
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Being a playwright of any race is difficult, and Lord knows it gets more difficult the further you get from the middle of the road. I don't know what kind of magic my mojo is working, but it's working.
Suzan-Lori Parks / Playwright
Lord
Magic
Mojo
Further
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The writing of Topdog was a great gift. I feel the play came to me because I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it.
Suzan-Lori Parks / Playwright
Despair
Play
Writing
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The writing of 'Topdog' was a great gift. I feel the play came to me because I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it.
Suzan-Lori Parks / Playwright
Heartbreak
Circumstances
Despair
Possibility
Great Gift Me
Causing
Great Gift
Great Me Gift
Realized
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I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially 'Now', 'Voyager', 'Casablanca', 'Mildred Pierce'; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and 'Paper Moon' by Peter Bogdanovich.
Suzan-Lori Parks / Playwright
Moon
Paper
Peter
Pierce
Davis
Bette
Casablanca
Welles
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The writer has two kinds of faith: actual writing and sitting openly. Have faith in your personal effort or sweat. And faith in God, or whatever you want to call it. Then the voices will come. Faith is the big deal.
Suzan-Lori Parks / Playwright
Faith
Big Deal
Effort
Sitting
Sweat
Two
Voice
Writing
Writer
Actual
God Faith Your
Call
Deal
Openly
Personal
Voices
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The first time I went over to [my director's] house, he said to me, This is a very strange play. I was pleased that he reminded me of that. [He] understands the play [VENUS] intellectually and emotionally and the humor, the funny bone.
Suzan-Lori Parks / Playwright
Directors
House
Play
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My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship - the idea that black people are from outer space, theres a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people.
Suzan-Lori Parks / Playwright
Space
Ideas
Play
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My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship - the idea that black people are from outer space, there's a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people.
Suzan-Lori Parks / Playwright
Music
Space
Truth
Black
Funk
Outer Space
Poetic
Relate
Truth Music People
Get
Those
Idea
Vast
Guys
Outer
Plays
Spaceship
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Everything I write doesn't appear to be biography until later. I often say that I've never written about anything I've experienced. Of course, that's not true. But it doesn't appear familiar to me at all. And maybe that's because I have to be in a kind of coma in order to write. If it appeared familiar, I wouldn't.
Suzan-Lori Parks / Playwright
Familiar
Appear
Biography
Experienced
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Be bold. Envision yourself living a life that you love. Believe, even if you can only muster your faith for just this moment, believe that the sort of life you wish to live is, at this very moment, just waiting for you to summon it up. And when you wish for it, you begin moving toward it, and it, in turn, begins moving toward you.
Suzan-Lori Parks / Playwright
Believe
Love Is
Moving
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I love my lecture tours. I get up onstage. I have my stack of books and a glass of water and a microphone. No podium, no distance between me and the audience, and I just talk to people and get all excited and tell a lot of jokes, and sing some songs, and read from my work and remind people how powerful they are and how beautiful they are.
Suzan-Lori Parks / Playwright
Distance
Love Work Beautiful
Tours
Glass
Lecture
Microphone
Onstage
Podium
Remind
Stack
Sing
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People ask me when I decided to become a playwright, and I tell them I decide to do it every day. Most days it's very hard because I'm frightened - not frightened of writing a bad play, although that happens often with me. I'm frightened of encountering the wilderness of my own spirit, which is always , no matter how many plays I write, a new and uncharted place. Every day when I sit down to write, I can't remember how it's done.
Suzan-Lori Parks / Playwright
People
Play
Writing
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I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it. I knew that I was learning one of the most important lessons of my life: that instead of waiting for the perfect opportunity, I should work toward a realization that every opportunity is perfect. Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth. Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.
Suzan-Lori Parks / Playwright
Opportunity
Compassion
Reflection
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Some people think I am an issue-oriented writer, but I've never said to myself, I'm gong to write about such-and-such an issue - that would make for incredibly boring writing, at least to my taste. Creating someone I don't know and her made-up world shows us more about who we are - is actually a better mirror - than if I were to parade in front of you an instantly recognizable person in an instantly recognizable situation. I'm not saying, Let's make it all abstract and weird and difficult and thereby you will know more about yourself. My process is much more organic than that.
Suzan-Lori Parks / Playwright
Creating
Thinking
Writing
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