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Eduardo Machado Quotes

born 1953 Cuba

Eduardo Machado (born June 11, 1953) is a Cuban playwright living in the United States.

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It’s the duty of the playwright to sneak in as many effronteries as he can. If you act completely effrontive to people, they’ll never go listen. So you gotta sneak it past them…

To perceive Latin people as menial workers, with some sort of underground element. Not to see people as individuals, to always see people in terms of their racial group. That’s who you’re fighting all the time; that’s who you’re fighting in theater, as well…

There’s always somebody in my plays who’s the outsider looking in. And when you don’t fit into the family structure, you’re the outsider. And the more fascistic a country is, the more that it wants to punish the outsider…

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Eduardo Machado (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.