16+ Suzan-Lori Parks Quotes On Education, Friendship And Courage

Suzan-Lori Parks is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. She is best known for her play Topdog/Underdog, which won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. She is the first African-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Suzan-Lori Parks on education, love, friendship.

Be bold. Envision yourself living a life that you love. Believe, even if you can only muster your faith for just this moment, believe that the sort of life you wish to live is, at this very moment, just waiting for you to summon it up. And when you wish for it, you begin moving toward it, and it, in turn, begins moving toward you. — Suzan-Lori Parks

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion. — Suzan-Lori Parks

Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history. — Suzan-Lori Parks

Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth. — 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 are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship - the idea that black people are from outer space, theres a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people. — Suzan-Lori Parks

I knew that I was learning one of the most important lessons of my life: that instead of waiting for the perfect opportunity, I should work toward a realization that every opportunity is perfect. — Suzan-Lori Parks

The first time I went over to [my director's] house, he said to me, This is a very strange play. I was pleased that he reminded me of that. [He] understands the play [VENUS] intellectually and emotionally and the humor, the funny bone. — Suzan-Lori Parks

The writing of Topdog was a great gift. I feel the play came to me because I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it. — Suzan-Lori Parks

And as you walk yr road, as you live yr life, RELISH THE ROAD. And relish the fact that the road of yr life will probably be a windy road. — Suzan-Lori Parks

My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library. — Suzan-Lori Parks

Youre only yourself when no ones watching! — Suzan-Lori Parks

I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially Now, Voyager, Casablanca, Mildred Pierce; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and Paper Moon by Peter Bogdanovich. — Suzan-Lori Parks

People ask me when I decided to become a playwright, and I tell them I decide to do it every day. Most days it's very hard because I'm frightened - not frightened of writing a bad play, although that happens often with me. I'm frightened of encountering the wilderness of my own spirit, which is always , no matter how many plays I write, a new and uncharted place. Every day when I sit down to write, I can't remember how it's done. — Suzan-Lori Parks

Quality is like quantity, but there's a lot less of it. — Suzan-Lori Parks

I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means. — Suzan-Lori Parks

Life Lessons by Suzan-Lori Parks

1. Suzan-Lori Parks teaches us to use our creativity to tell stories about the human experience, no matter how difficult or uncomfortable the subject matter may be.
2. She encourages us to take risks and push boundaries in order to explore new perspectives and challenge the status quo.
3. Through her work, Parks reminds us of the power of theatre to bring people together and create meaningful dialogue about important issues.