Katori Hall Quotes

• We expect our leaders to be godlike. But I feel that when people try to sanctify leadership, it puts it out of the realm of regular people. And that’s where the greatest leaders come from – from the people.

  Katori Hall

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Leaders, Greatest

• Through school, I saw plenty of theatre my parents weren’t necessarily up on. They would prefer a football game to watching ‘The Nutcracker,’ and that’s fine. I enjoy both.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Plenty, Prefer

• Most of the time, when I’m writing, I’m writing for myself. I’m thinking, ‘What will my character say at this time? What will come out of her mouth?’ I create individuals so real to me, I sometimes start talking to them. Then I let them loose on the page.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Create, Mouth

• Many theaters are tackling the multifaceted work of black writers – established and emerging. Now the next step is for them to bring in audiences of color and continue to go out to our community and create a continuous connection that extends beyond the one black show in the season.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Create, Continuous

• I’m very Southern in the way I walk in the world. I love to laugh. I love to eat. I love to hug people. But if somebody makes me mad, my neck may roll. I can be aggressive with a Southern twang.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mad, Southern

• I grew up playing with kids from Hurt Village, playing with kids from other housing projects, Lamar Terrace, because my grandmother lived in that particular area. So, I always wondered how I would have turned out if I would have lived in that particular given circumstance.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Village, Housing

• I can only speak for myself, but when I was growing up in Memphis – and having the Martin Luther King holiday and the moment of pause on April 4th – he was just a statue to me. I wanted to make him a little bit more real to me as a human being.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Statue, Holiday

• I always felt like Broadway was not for me – in terms of ticket price, in terms of what was on there. I never saw myself reflected in the mirror of the Great White Way.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reflected, Ticket

• ‘Hurt Village’ is based on a real housing project in Memphis, about three minutes away from the Lorraine Hotel where Dr. King was assassinated, so in my work I’m focusing on a very specific area in Memphis. I see ‘Hurt Village’ as a natural extension of ‘The Mountaintop.’

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Housing, Extension

• As a black woman who grows up in a predominantly white neighborhood, you learn how to perform a ‘good’ version of yourself. And then when you’re with your home girls, you’re saying all kinds of stuff that sounds all kinds of crazy, but you understand each other because you’re speaking the way that you’re comfortable with.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Black, Predominantly

• Unlike films, which can be easily disseminated worldwide via DVDs and the Internet, plays struggle to find an international audience.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Easily, Struggle

• Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dying, Dominated

• Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Unfortunately, Hatred

• Serendipity always rewards the prepared.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Serendipity, Rewards

• Playwrights are the most gregarious writers – to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Gregarious, Designers

• Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Passion, Burn

• It is expensive to give plays subtitles, especially for a short run, so most new dramas rarely cross the transcontinental bridge.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Subtitles, Bridge

• In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Equality, Care

• I’m very opinionated, very intelligent and not afraid to show that.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Opinionated, Intelligent

• I’ll never be August Wilson – but what I can be is more of myself.

  Katori Hall

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in August, Never

Katori Hall (32)

Birth:	10th May, 1981
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Journalist, Playwright

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