Katori Hall
Katori Hall
Katori Hallis an American playwright, journalist, and actress from Memphis, Tennessee...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth10 May 1981
CountryUnited States of America
care equality great order
In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality.
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I grew up playing with kids from Hurt Village, playing with kids from other housing projects, Lamar Terrace, because my grandmother lived in that particular area. So, I always wondered how I would have turned out if I would have lived in that particular given circumstance.
cannot excluded feminist movement talk within women
I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue.
I'm very opinionated, very intelligent and not afraid to show that.
aggressive hug love neck somebody southern
I'm very Southern in the way I walk in the world. I love to laugh. I love to eat. I love to hug people. But if somebody makes me mad, my neck may roll. I can be aggressive with a Southern twang.
dreams follow guide inner
Follow your intuition, listening to your dreams, your inner voice to guide you.
august wilson i-can
I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.
play ends knows
You don’t know what’s going to happen in the end, and that’s what the best plays are.
powerful hatred progress
Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.
serendipity rewards prepared
Serendipity always rewards the prepared.
hate passion hell
Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.
needs actors done
Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.
writing race
I always say that I'm a writer who writes more from place than race.
white mirrors broadway
I always felt like Broadway was not for me - in terms of ticket price, in terms of what was on there. I never saw myself reflected in the mirror of the Great White Way.