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Top 10 Lynn Nottage Quotes (2025 Update)

Lynn Nottage Quote: “Just because it’s a unique perspective doesn’t mean it can’t offer something universal.”

1. “Just because it’s a unique perspective doesn’t mean it can’t offer something universal.”

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Lynn Nottage Quote: “If you lead with the anger, it will turn off the audience. And what I want is the audience to engage with the material and to listen and then to ask questions. I think that ‘Ruined’ was very successful at doing that.”

2. “If you lead with the anger, it will turn off the audience. And what I want is the audience to engage with the material and to listen and then to ask questions. I think that ‘Ruined’ was very successful at doing that.”

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Lynn Nottage Quote: “I was repeatedly told that there isn’t an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway. I said, ‘Well, how do we know? How do we know if we don’t do it?’ I said, ‘I think you’re wrong.’”

3. “I was repeatedly told that there isn’t an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway. I said, ‘Well, how do we know? How do we know if we don’t do it?’ I said, ‘I think you’re wrong.’”

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Lynn Nottage Quote: “Each play I write has its own unique origin story.”

4. “Each play I write has its own unique origin story.”

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Lynn Nottage Quote: “I can’t quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the seemingly endless war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but I knew that I wanted to somehow tell the stories of the Congolese women caught in the cross-fire.”

5. “I can’t quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the seemingly endless war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but I knew that I wanted to somehow tell the stories of the Congolese women caught in the cross-fire.”

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Lynn Nottage Quote: “In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.”

6. “In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.”

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Lynn Nottage Quote: “A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.”

7. “A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.”

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Lynn Nottage Quote: “Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics.”

8. “Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics.”

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Lynn Nottage Quote: “African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler Perrys career. His films open with $25 million almost consistently.”

9. “African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler Perrys career. His films open with $25 million almost consistently.”

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Lynn Nottage Quote: “I need a release from whatever I’m writing.”

10. “I need a release from whatever I’m writing.”

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Lynn Nottage Quote: “The universe, the landscape, it is all changing. It has not changed enough-that is a given- but it is changing, and evolution is something to embrace. Racism is alive and well and we still encounter microaggressions on a regular basis, bat at least now we can go home and close the door and enjoy some entertainment, see ourselves on-screen, imagine ourselves as superheroes and goddesses. Before, you got hassled, you went home, and you had nothing. That’s the difference.”

11. “The universe, the landscape, it is all changing. It has not changed enough-that is a given- but it is changing, and evolution is something to embrace. Racism is alive and well and we still encounter microaggressions on a regular basis, bat at least now we can go home and close the door and enjoy some entertainment, see ourselves on-screen, imagine ourselves as superheroes and goddesses. Before, you got hassled, you went home, and you had nothing. That’s the difference.”

— Lynn Nottage

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