American - Playwright | 1964 -
When you're fighting for an increasingly smaller portion of the pie, you turn against each other; you create reasons to hate each other.
Lynn Nottage
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I think folks who are resistant to engaging in art become less so once they encounter art that really reflects them.
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It's incumbent on us to reach beyond the confines of the institutions that traditionally produce art and find new ways to get it to the people.
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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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We use metaphors to express our own truths.
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The presence of a bed changes the way people interact.
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When I sat in rooms with middle-aged white men, I heard them speaking like young black men in America. They had been solidly middle class for the majority of their working careers, but now they were feeling angry, disaffected, and in some cases, they actually had tears in their eyes.
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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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For me, the first thing is to tell a good story.
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It's very important for me to have dialogues across racial lines.
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Like Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, I try to balance reality with how we'd like the world to be.
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Winning the second Pulitzer firmly places me in conversation with this culture.
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