Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

  • -- August Wilson 奥古斯特.威尔逊

传统上,黑人必须在这样一种情况下工作,即白人把自己树立为黑人经验的保管人。

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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.

我所写的一切直到后来才成为传记。我经常说我从来没有写过我所经历的事情。当然,这不是真的。但我一点也不熟悉。也许这是因为我必须处于昏迷状态才能写作。如果它看起来很熟悉,我不会。

When my first husband died, what I tried to do is to sort of, you know, try to bring some rationale to the circumstance and think about worse circumstances, and also open the door to what other women experienced when all of a sudden they were left alone. And particularly if they had children.

当我的第一任丈夫去世时,我想做的是,你知道,试着给当时的情况找一些理由,想想更糟糕的情况,同时也为其他女性打开一扇门,让她们体验一下突然间被单独留下时的感受。尤其是如果他们有孩子的话。

Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.

除非年轻的黑人被纳入经济生活的主流,否则他们将继续被边缘化。

It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.

并不是说黑色漂亮,而是说白色不漂亮。