Top 19 Quotes by Suzan-Lori Parks

About Suzan-Lori Parks

These are some quotes by American author Suzan-Lori Parks Playwright, who was born on May 10, 1963.

I learned that if we embrace what's happening, we are also embracing what is possible - and a road opens up for God to meet us halfway.

I learned that if we embrace what's happening, we are also embracing what is possible - and a road opens up for God to meet us halfway.

Suzan-Lori Parks

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

Suzan-Lori Parks

I don't read reviews. I refuse to have my ego inflated or deflated by someone I don't know.

I don't read reviews. I refuse to have my ego inflated or deflated by someone I don't know.

Suzan-Lori Parks

The writer has two kinds of faith: actual writing and sitting openly. Have faith in your personal effort or sweat. And faith in God, or whatever you want to call it. Then the voices will come. Faith is the big deal.

Suzan-Lori Parks

My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental.

My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental.

Suzan-Lori Parks

Everything I write doesn't appear to be biography until later. I often say that I've never written about anything I've experienced. Of course, that's not true. But it doesn't appear familiar to me at all. And maybe that's because I have to be in a kind of coma in order to write. If it appeared familiar, I wouldn't.

Suzan-Lori Parks

Someone yelled at me once, 'You never write about yourself.' People used to get so mad at me for that. But my definition of myself is completely up for grabs. I'm everywhere, just like we all are.

Someone yelled at me once, 'You never write about yourself.' People used to get so mad at me for that. But my definition of myself is completely up for grabs. I'm everywhere, just like we all are.

Suzan-Lori Parks

Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth.

Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth.

Suzan-Lori Parks

One could get locked in by the Pulitzer, thinking, 'This is who I am.' Doors open with it, but doors in your mind could close.

One could get locked in by the Pulitzer, thinking, 'This is who I am.' Doors open with it, but doors in your mind could close.

Suzan-Lori Parks

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