Suzan-Lori Parks Quotes
Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.
Quotes to Explore
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The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
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I love writing songs.
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I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?
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I love Chicago.
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It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.
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I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'
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The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
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People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
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When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.
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I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.
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Where there is love there is life.
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The essence of a person is not the clothing she wears or the things he does. People who love them do not stop loving them when they change clothing or do other things. Your essence is not even your history, culture, race, or what you think and do. It is your soul.
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I love a good massage, and they gotta go deep.
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We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit - more so than the pursuit of a boyfriend. When you have that core, you bring that core to every aspect of your life.
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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
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When employees feel anonymous in the eyes of their managers, they simply cannot love their work, no matter how much money they make or how wonderful their jobs seem to be.
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Moammar Gaddafi, who has called himself the 'Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,' should go down in history with the Emperor Bokassa and Idi Amin as a grotesque reminder of why people have the right to change their government.
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I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
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Up against Goliath, to bring butter home.
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I'm happy to have the opportunity to record the records I want to - I'm very aware that that's a privilege.
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Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.
