You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am."
John GuareDoes the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.
John GuareNew Orleans was a thrilling place of all kinds of races, it was a dangerous place. It was really and truly the only international city on the continent of North America. There were all different races and everything was celebrated, and it was a place of difference, and everybody was different and it was so odd, the minute that America took over, the minute that the Louisiana territory became part of the United States of America, instantly you were either black or white. There was no nuance. and so a free man of color who could own property was suddenly not allowed to.
John Guare