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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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。

The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.

关于黑人历史,真相比你能编造的任何东西都要复杂得多。

I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.

我只是认为,去看电影的集体体验是无法重现的。