#millennium approaches

[oliverscarlin]

Still from Angels in America (2003) Directed by Mike Nichols

[decembersflowerchild]

RIP Harper Pitt, you would have loved Adrianne Lenker’s “not a lot, just forever”

[redlipstickdujour]

BELIZE: Up in the air, just like that angel, too far off the earth to pick out the details. Louis and his Big Ideas. Big Ideas are all you love. "America" is what Louis loves.

LOUIS: So what? Maybe I do. You don't know what I love. You don't.

BELIZE: Well I hate America, Louis. I hate this country. It's just big ideas, and stories, and people dying, and people like you.

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody can reach it. That was deliberate.

Nothing on earth sounds less like freedom to me.

You come with me to room 1013 over at the hospital, I'll show you America. Terminal, crazy and mean.

I live in America, Louis, that's hard enough, I don't have to love it. You do that. Everybody's got to love something.

LOUIS: Everybody does.

-Angels in America, Part II: Perestroika, Act 4 Scene 5-

Yes it is Inauguration Day 2025, but it’s also just another day in America. So take care of yourself & what you love, transcend the symbolism of the others hateful visage, to fly past the small nonsense…

HANNAH: An angel is a belief. With wings and arms that can carry you. If it lets you down, reject it.

PRIOR: Huh.

HANNAH: There's scriptural precedent.

PRIOR: And then what?

HANNAH (A little shrug, then): Seek something new.

-Angels in America, Part II: Perestroika, Act 4 Scene 8-

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[catofadifferentcolor]

“My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life.” 

― Tony Kushner, Millennium Approaches

[justinkirkism]

"The Advocate Magazine" interviews Justin Kirk about Angels in America's Prior Walter

[adrasteiax]

PRIOR: We have reached a verdict, your honor. This man’s heart is deficient. He loves, but his love is worth nothing.

Tony Kushner, from Angels In America: Millennium Approaches

[adrasteiax]

Tony Kushner, from Angels In America: Millennium Approaches

[adrasteiax]

I just wondered what a thing it would be...if overnight everything you owe anything to, justice, or love, had really gone away. Free. It would be...heartless terror. Yes. Terrible, and...very great. To shed your skin, every old skin, one by one and then walk away, unencumbered, into the morning.

Tony Kushner, from Angels In America: Millennium Approaches