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My mother had a wall of degrees in our house, and she would walk me up to the wall and say, 'When you have this many degrees, you can tell me what to do.'

~Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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'A Streetcar Named Desire' is the play I've probably read the most times in my life, and I love the weirdness of all the scene outs but especially the end of the second scene, when Williams brings a tamale vendor on stage to simply say, 'Red hot!'

~Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Topics: Brings Desire End Hot Life Love Most My Life Named Play Read Red Say Scene Second Simply Stage Times Weirdness Williams I Love

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I go through phases of watching a ton of dance/performance, and I am bizarrely well-informed on the subject.

~Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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I have a borderline-embarrassing obsession with pop music.

~Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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At the end of the day, most people just want to be valued. They want to feel they have put their time to something that will seem to have been of value when they die.

~Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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All my plays have these titles that are oddly tricky. I like that something can look like one thing but mean two different things. Language is really unstable in that way.

~Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Topics: Different Different Things Language Like Look Mean Oddly One Thing Plays Really Something Thing Things Titles Tricky Two Unstable Way

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Somehow, whenever we think about race or blackness in relationship to art, we always come in kind of nervous. We always think someone's about to be punished or accused of something.

~Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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Something that happens to me is that I'll write a play specifically from my own experience, and then I'll inevitably be told that I'm being tunnel-visioned about it. People always ask, 'What about that other race? Or discrimination toward those people?'

~Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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Family dramas are tough, as a playwright. Most stories are about characters going on a trip or a new character coming to town, because that's how you learn information about them. But with family, they all know each other already. There's years of history in every interaction.

~Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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All of my work is sort of fed by a question, a need to understand the world and why the world is what it is.

~Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: December 29th, 1984

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