He was basically telling me that I was working way too hard. He was telling me, calm down.

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What that did was take a lot of money from black theaters. It really hurt the black theater.

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As a people, we have a way of making light of things like that. If you were uptight about everything that happened to you, you would waste away.

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I happen to be one of the actors that was working at that time, which was during Black History Month. If you're not working in February, you'd better get yourself another job.

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The theaters are . . . a business. If August's plays weren't out there for all these theaters to jump on, they wouldn't have done it at all.

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I don't remember talking about current events with August. He would always talk about what he was writing.

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