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

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• Suzan-Lori Parks:

  I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry.

• Suzan-Lori Parks:

  I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially 'Now', 'Voyager', 'Casab

• Suzan-Lori Parks:

  One could get locked in by the Pulitzer, thinking, 'This is who I am.' Doors open with it, but door

• Suzan-Lori Parks:

  The writing of 'Topdog' was a great gift. I feel the play came to me because I realized that my cir

• Suzan-Lori Parks:

  Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth.

• Suzan-Lori Parks:

  Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

• Suzan-Lori Parks:

  I learned that if we embrace what's happening, we are also embracing what is possible - and a road

• Suzan-Lori Parks:

  I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like eve

• Suzan-Lori Parks:

  I don't read reviews. I refuse to have my ego inflated or deflated by someone I don't know.

• Suzan-Lori Parks:

  My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When