I truly love the rehearsal process, those eight hours a day! I really love actors. Pearl Cleage Read Quote
Denzel Washington is a big Hollywood movie star now. But he started out as an actor in the Negro Ensemble company. Pearl Cleage Read Quote
I worked in Maynard Jackson’s first campaign, and I remember the excitement we felt when he won. Pearl Cleage Read Quote
If I had to name one book that has had the most lasting influence on my work, I would pick ‘The Big Sea’ by Langston Hughes. Pearl Cleage Read Quote
I didn’t have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet. Pearl Cleage Read Quote
I was raised in a very activist household so that I grew up surrounded by people who were activists. Pearl Cleage Read Quote
When you sit down to write, you have to be prepared to strip all of those voices away, all of the censors away, and talk about what you think the truth is, which I think is really the task of the writer – to get to the truth. Pearl Cleage Read Quote
I think one of the things that writers and creative artists generally have to deal with is the censors that we have in our heads, the voices that we have that say you better not tell that and don’t tell that, and people will think you’re not a good girl, and your grandmother’s going to be mad at you and all of those things. Pearl Cleage Read Quote
When you’re writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see. Pearl Cleage Read Quote
I’m not one of those playwrights who says, ‘Show up, hit your marks, and don’t talk to me!’ I always want to hear from the other artists involved, whether it’s the director, the lighting tech, or the actors. Pearl Cleage Read Quote