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• ‟ I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities.

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• ‟ Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

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• ‟ Pittsburgh is a very hard city, especially if you're black.

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• ‟ Scripts were rather scarce in 1968. We did a lot of Amiri Baraka's plays, the agitprop stuff he was writing. It was at a time when black student organizations were active on the campuses, so we were invited to the colleges around Pittsburgh and Ohio, and even as far away as Jackson, Mississippi.

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• ‟ In 1977, I wrote a series of poems about a character, Black Bart, a former cattle rustler-turned-alchemist. A good friend, Claude Purdy, who is a stage director, suggested I turn the poems into a play.

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• ‟ Most of black America is in housing projects, without jobs, living on welfare. And this is not the case in 'The Cosby Show,' because all the values in that household are strictly what I would call white American values.

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