"Levee is this bright, promising future - but the pain and the scars and the sins of the past going to keep Levee from realizing all the bright promising future that he has before him?" Wolfe asks. And then you say you've got a play."Īnd it's the character of Levee who carries that story in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, says Wolfe. That is both illuminating even as it's blinding. And you wrassle with them and deal with them and hopefully after you have walked through that landscape you've come out with something that - a larger something, be it truth or not. But if you're writing seriously out of the core of yourself, then very oftimes you confront things which are frightening. You never know what you're going to confront. My baggage is the small imperial truths which I have accumulated from my life experience. Sometimes there's a terrifying landscape. "What I do is I go inside myself," Wilson said. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life." They don't understand that's life's way of talking. They hear it come out but they don't know how it got there. "White folks don't understand about the Blues.
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