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" We use metaphors to express our own truths. "
Lynn Nottage
Own
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Metaphors
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" In listening to the narratives of the Congolese, I came to terms with the extent to which their bodies had become battlefields. "
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" By the sheer act of writing, we are trying to place value on the stories that we're invested in. "
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" Broadway's never my end goal because of the plays I write. These are tough plays. Of course there's a lot of humor, but my goal is just to reach as wide an audience as possible, however that happens. "
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" I'm a contemporary playwright in a postmodern world. "
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World
" In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity. "
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Role
" The people sometimes who are closest to us are the ones who bear the brunt of our frustration. "
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" I've been asked a lot why didn't 'Ruined' go to Broadway. It was the most successful play that Manhattan Theatre Club has ever had in that particular space, and yet we couldn't find a home on Broadway. "
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Theatre
Home
" By and large, the theatre establishment is run by a white majority. "
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Large
White
" In many ways, I consider those to be my formative years, because when you're in school, you have a distant relationship to the world in that most of what you're learning is from books and lectures. But at Amnesty, I came face to face with realities in a very direct and harsh way. "
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School
World
Relationship
" I am a Tony voter; it is an honor that I take seriously. Each season, I enter the process with a degree of enthusiasm and optimism, which dissipates as I slowly plow through show after show. "
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Honor
I Am
" The essence of creativity is to look beyond where you can actually see. I don't want to dwell in same place too long. "
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You
Want
" Winning the second Pulitzer firmly places me in conversation with this culture. "
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Culture
Conversation
Winning
" Saying, 'I'm going to create jobs' is great, but before you create jobs, something has to be offered to alleviate some of the suffering now. "
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Suffering
Great
Saying
" I was really interested in the way in which poverty and economic stagnation were transforming and corrupting the American narrative. "
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Which
Way
Poverty
" I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway. I said, 'Well, how do we know? How do we know if we don't do it?' I said, 'I think you're wrong.' "
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You
American
Think
" I need a release from whatever I'm writing. "
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Need
Release
Whatever
" There is an enduring feeling that women can write domestic dramas but don't have the muscularity or the vision to write state-of-the-nation narratives. "
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Feeling
Vision
Women
" Growing up in New York City, I'd flirted with the idea of driving, but between the subway and the sidewalks, I'd never needed to learn. "
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Growing Up
New
Driving
" There was no way I was going to write about Africa and not include the triumphant continuity of life that had also been part of my experience there. It's not just war and famine all the time. "
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Time
Life
Way
" I don't think any of us could predict Trump. Trump is the stuff of nightmares. But in talking to people, I knew there was a tremendous level of disaffection and anger and sorrow. I know people felt misrepresented and voiceless. "
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People
Talking
Us
" When you're fighting for an increasingly smaller portion of the pie, you turn against each other; you create reasons to hate each other. "
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Create
" Ultimately, we're incredibly resilient creatures. People really do get on with the business of living. "
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Living
Business
Creatures
" I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and some even crawl out of the dusty remote recesses of my imagination. "
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Party
Imagination
Dinner
" If you're looking at the people who head the institutions, there are very few African Americans or people of colour. I'm talking about the major theatres that position themselves as serving all audiences. What you find is, by and large, people who are shaping what we see, and the people who are the tastemakers are white. "
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Looking
White
You
" It remains an incredible struggle for women in theater, and, in particular, playwrights and directors, to get their work seen and to not only get seen, but to get it to Broadway. "
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Only
Work
Struggle
" The person whose work introduced me to the craft was Lorraine Hansberry. The person who taught me to love the craft was Tennessee Williams. The person who really taught me the power of the craft was August Wilson, and the person who taught me the political heft of the craft was Arthur Miller. "
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Love
Political
Person
" We need to diversify the people who are backstage and producing and marketing these shows. It's the limitations of these people that are holding Broadway back. "
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Back
Broadway
Marketing
" I do see myself as an old-fashioned storyteller. But there's always a touch of the political in my plays. "
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Touch
See
" In senior year at college, Paula Vogel was my playwriting teacher; she is the first person to introduce me to the notion that a woman could actually forge a career in the theatre. Up until then, the possibility seemed remote and inaccessible, as I had very few role models who directly touched my life. "
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