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20 quotes by Suzan-Lori Parks

Suzan-Lori Parks (born 10 May 1963) is an African-American playwright and screenwriter. She received the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant in 2001, and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Topdog/Underdog.
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Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth.

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I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially 'Now', 'Voyager', 'Casablanca', 'Mildred... →

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I learned that if we embrace what's happening, we are also embracing what is possible - and a road opens up for God to meet us halfway.

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Everything I write doesn't appear to be biography until later. I often say that I've never written about anything I've experienced. Of... →

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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... →

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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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I love my lecture tours. I get up onstage. I have my stack of books and a glass of water and a microphone. No podium, no distance between me and the... →

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Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

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Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.

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My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental.

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Someone yelled at me once, 'You never write about yourself.' People used to get so mad at me for that. But my definition of myself is... →

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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... →

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I don't care what anybody says. Stick to the spirit of the play and you're doing it right. It's about embracing the spirit of the text... →

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