- You cannot have a theatre without ideology, without a base from which all of the forms must emanate and call it Black, for it will be the same as Western theatre, conventional theatre, safe theatre.
- We must begin building cultural centers where we can enjoy being free, open and black; where we can find out how talented we really are, where we can be what we were born to be and not what we were brainwashed where we can literally 'blow our minds' with blackness. BAT -- from a 1968 article to the New York Times.
- I gave up acting because I couldn't be directed. No one could tell what had to be done, because I knew better than anyone else. I don't direct people, I help them to liberate themselves, to free their creative powers through ritual, through dance, music and poetry. And along the way, we help to liberate our audiences.
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