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Sure, I look like a white man. But my heart is as black as anyone's here.

~George C. Wallace

Topics: Anyone Black Heart Here Like Look Man Sure White

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The world doesn't see a lot of gray. The world sees black and white, and then it understands.

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: Black Black And White Gray Lot See Sees Then Understands White World

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When 'Jelly's' went out on tour, no one really wanted it. It was undersold. And I knew if I gave 'Noise' to someone else, they would sell it as 'Stomp' with little dancing black boys.

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: Black Boy Dancing Else Gave Jelly Knew Little Noise Out Really Sell Someone Stomp Tour Wanted Would

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Generally, the realm in which black playwrights have been allowed to achieve success has been social realism or musicals.

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: Achieve Allowed Been Black Generally Musicals Playwrights Realism Realm Social Success Which

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I don't go, like, 'Hmm, I'm now going to create something for the black community.' I just feel this compelling urge. I just feel myself drawn to stories that I feel have a potency and immediacy.

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: Black Black Community Community Compelling Create Drawn Feel Go Going Immediacy Just Like Myself Now Something Stories Urge I Feel

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I viewed black musicals before 'Jelly' as a form of cultural strip mining. The exterior remained, but all the culture that signified where the people had come from and their connection to the earth was absent.

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: Absent Before Black Come Connection Cultural Culture Earth Exterior Form Had Jelly Mining Musicals People Remained Strip Viewed Where

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'Jelly,' more than any black musical before it, celebrated the majesty, the purity, the joy of so many artists who are unable to fully embody these same qualities in their own lives.

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: Any Artists Before Black Celebrated Embody Fully Jelly Joy Lives Majesty Many More Musical Own Purity Qualities Same Than Unable Who

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The black experience, which has nothing to do with my play 'Angels in America,' allowed me to understand the Mormon character. He was the character that couldn't come out to his mother. It allowed me to understand emotional and closeted behavior, because you're so acutely aware of how you're perceived.

~George C. Wolfe

Topics: Allowed America Angels Aware Because Behavior Black Character Come Emotional Experience He His How Me Mormon Mother Nothing Out Perceived Play Understand Which You

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I don't think I've ever worn anything other than black jeans and shirts. Quite simple, really, and quite casual.

~George Ezra

Topics: Anything Black Casual Ever Jeans Other Quite Really Shirts Simple Than Think Worn

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My mother was the only girl in the family. One brother was District Attorney of Odessa or something; another was teaching classical languages; another was a captain of a battleship of the Black Navy; and still another was a chemist and icthyologist.

~George Gamow

Topics: Another Attorney Black Brother Captain Chemist Classical District Family Girl Languages Mother Navy Only Something Still Teaching

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