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" I think someone like Khandi Alexander, who's now on 'Treme,' is one of the most extraordinary actresses I've seen in years. But she's dependent on someone brilliant like David Simon to realize that and to give her a forum. Tyler Perry's not interested in that kind of nuance because it doesn't sell. "

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" Women have an ability to be still in a way men don't. "

" Broadway is not about surprises. It's about rewarding the putrid, formulaic crap that makes Broadway Broadway. "

" Our wishes are our most reliable mirror, and the black-and-white movies I'm most drawn to are about artists who suffer because art is a noble thing; suffering is such a small price to pay for the imagination. "

" I don't know what else teaches you as much as writing. Perhaps reading. So if I don't have one or the other in the course of the day, I feel old. "

" My love of performers is not really different than my love for painters. Everyone's really high-strung and trying to do the best they can. "

" 'Moonlight' undoes our expectations as viewers, and as human beings, too. As we watch, another movie plays in our minds: real-life footage of the many forms of damage done to black men, which can sometimes lead them to turn that hateful madness on their own kind, passing on the poison that was their inheritance. "

" I'm not one of those people who's against all-black productions of Tennessee Williams plays, but there are lot more complex and natural ways to bring people of color into the theater. "

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" My mother reveres artists, and my sister and I have inherited her love of art and the stories about its creation. "

" If you want to take writing on, you should pay writing the respect it deserves, which is to say, reading it. "

" Boredom means you develop your own interior life. "

" I envy poets because nobody ever asks them if it's true or false. "

" People have a copyright on their own life. "

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" Dramas about addiction can be exciting to watch. And then dispiriting. Exciting because degradation is fascinating to follow from the relative safety and smugness of an 'appropriate' life, and dispiriting because if all that sad mayhem can happen to this or that character, what's to keep it from happening to me or you? "

" Eminem was someone that I discovered I liked, largely because of his relationship to language and to his mother. "

" I love Andre Leon Talley as a person. "

" I'm attracted to people who work their little plot of land and cultivate it and cultivate it. "

" If you have a word of encouragement, you can do anything. "

" I didn't like '12 Years a Slave' because it was playing to the Spielbergian model of redemption. "

" I have not seen 'The Lion King.' I don't do black folklore. And I'm black. "

" I don't think that there are many, many strong, black male role models who provide a certain kind of really American, Southern-based comfort that Madea grows out of. She's a signpost in our Obama world of traditional Christian values. "

" Inspiration takes many forms, but it's rarely pure. "

" I suppose that there are many novels that are set during the summer because it's a lonely time of year. Friends come and go, comfort comes and goes, which makes it a perfect time of year to indulge in melancholia. "

" There is not enough time for anything, ever. "

" I think that you don't really want to write a book that doesn't really move people and doesn't get them to think. "

" I think one of the things that started to hinder Baldwin as an artist later on was that he became really aware of power, so he wanted it, too. But if you look at the work before that, before 'The Fire Next Time' put him on the cover of 'Time Magazine,' it was much more intimate and a much more internal conversation. "

" I'm one of those crazy people who have to write every day. Otherwise, I feel really sort of despondent, and it's because I don't feel very happy about not learning. "

" It's dollars before art in Hollywood. "

" I think, what's the point of writing a book that you would get in one sitting? "

" If I feel like I haven't really tapped into the essence of the story when I do an assignment, I may revisit it on my own, and that's when I feel freer to add my imagination. But I think that if you feel imaginatively towards a subject, you really shouldn't do it in a journalistic context, because then you're just fabricating, and that's crazy. "