Pearl Cleage
Pearl Cleage
Pearl Cleageis an African-American author whose work, both fiction and non-fiction, has been widely recognized. Her novel What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day was a 1998 Oprah Book Club selection. Cleage is known for her feminist views, particularly regarding her identity as an African-American woman. Cleage teaches drama at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth7 December 1948
CountryUnited States of America
except imagination love places
That's why I love being a writer. My imagination can take me places I may never see except in my mind's eye.
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I truly love the rehearsal process, those eight hours a day! I really love actors.
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What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.
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I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're falling in love.
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a lot of brothers don't understand. When it comes to making love, reciprocity is everything.
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Most of us, I think, are conscious of history swirling around outside the door, but when we're in the house, we're usually not dealing with history. We're not thinking about history.
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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.
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I worked in Maynard Jackson's first campaign, and I remember the excitement we felt when he won.
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I was raised in a very activist household so that I grew up surrounded by people who were activists.
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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.
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Denzel Washington is a big Hollywood movie star now. But he started out as an actor in the Negro Ensemble company.
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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.
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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.
When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see.