American - Playwright | 1964 -
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.
Lynn Nottage
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Silence is complicity. I believe that.
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Even in Congo, where conflicts are happening, people have births, weddings, deaths, and celebrations.
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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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I knew that there was a great deal of depth and life that was sitting just beyond my mother's gaze.
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The people sometimes who are closest to us are the ones who bear the brunt of our frustration.
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I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past.
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I see procrastination and research as part of my artistic process.
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Once working people discover that, collectively, we have more power than we do as individual silos, then we become an incredibly powerful force. But I think that there are powers that be that are invested in us remaining divided along racial lines, along economic lines.
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The more you go to a theatre and the more you hear stories you aren't necessarily familiar with, the more open you become.
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The theatre should reflect America as it's lived in today. And that is a multicultural America.
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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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