"Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot."

-- Debbie Allen

#Play Quotes #West Quotes #Prophet Quotes

“Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.”
“Reciter and listener of the Qur'an are alike in prize and reward.”
“I think once you've allocated an actor to the role that the character will evolve slightly.”
“An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. And this is one of the big problems of life, that so many people never quite get to the point of rising above self. And so they end up the tragic victims of self-centeredness. They end up the victims of distorted and disrupted personality.”
“One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.”

Source : Third book of Criticism
“When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.”
“You have to name it to claim it”
“Everybody expresses themselves in different ways. Some people write it down, some people paint it. Some people express it in the way they speak. We just express our feelings through music.”

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