American - Playwright | May 10, 1963 -
I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry.
Suzan-Lori Parks
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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.
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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.
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I don't read reviews. I refuse to have my ego inflated or deflated by someone I don't know.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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