"I am the white woman character, black woman character. I am the black man character, the white man character…I have to stand in that person’s shoes."
— Suzan-Lori Parks

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

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On embodying every one of her characters in “Pulitzer Prize Winner Suzan-Lori Parks Questions ‘Woke-ness’ With Her Latest Off-Broadway Play” in Playbill (2019 Mar 1)