Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches.
Visions of America: The Reagan Era Quotes
Prior: K.S., baby. Lesion number one. Lookit. The wine-dark kiss of the angel of death. (1.4.31)
Politics Quotes
Roy: I've had many fathers, I owe my life to them, powerful, powerful men. Walter Winchell, Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy most of all. (2.4.56)
Justice and Judgment Quotes
Joe: The truth restored. Law restored. That's what President Reagan's done, Harper. He says "Truth exists and can be spoken proudly." (1.5.63)
Sexuality and Sexual Identity Quotes
Louis: Sorry I didn't introduce you to... I always get so closety at these family things. (1.4.8)
Isolation Quotes
Harper: People who are lonely, people left alone, sit talking nonsense to the air, imagining... beautiful systems dying, old orders spiraling apart... (1.3.62)
Spirituality Quotes
Stage Directions: Rabbi Isidor Chemelwitz alone onstage with a small coffin. [...] A prayer shawl embroidered with a Star of David is draped over the lid, and by the head a yarzheit candle is burni...
Betrayal Quotes
Prior: I was scared, Lou. [...] That you'll leave me (1.4.51).
Versions of Reality Quotes
Harper: What are you doing in my hallucination?Prior: I'm not in your hallucination. You're in my dream. (1.7.5-6)