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Roy Cohn
Belize is an openly gay black man who is fond of transvestism (dressing as a woman), and who also works as a nurse at the hospital where Roy Cohn spends his final days. Belize is intelligent and highly insightful, and there are many points throughout the play where characters go to Belize for interpretations of their dreams and visions. Like Louis and Prior—the latter of whom was once his lover—Belize is extremely liberal in his politics. Yet in part because of his racial identity, Belize seems more concerned with the day-to-day realities of the human experience than with lofty political rhetoric or “grand theories.” He’s an intensely loyal man, especially to other gay people—indeed, he even helps out Roy Cohn, an openly homophobic man, simply because Cohn is secretly gay.
Belize / Norman Ariago Quotes in Angels in America
The Angels in America quotes below are all either spoken by Belize / Norman Ariago or refer to Belize / Norman Ariago. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Millennium Approaches: Act 3, Scene 2
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I've thought about it for a very long time, and I still don't understand what love is. Justice is simple. Democracy is simple. Those things are unambivalent. But love is very hard. And it goes bad for you if you violate the hard law of love.
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Perestroika: Act 2, Scene 1
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That ludicrous spectacle in there, just a parody of the funeral of someone who really counted. We don't; faggots; we're just a bad dream the world is having, and the real world's waking up. And he's dead.
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Perestroika: Act 4, Scene 3
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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.
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Perestroika: Act 5, Scene 3
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He was a terrible person. He died a hard death. So maybe... A queen can forgive her vanquished foe. It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet. Peace, at last. Isn't that what the Kaddish asks for?
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Belize / Norman Ariago Quotes in Angels in America
The Angels in America quotes below are all either spoken by Belize / Norman Ariago or refer to Belize / Norman Ariago. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Millennium Approaches: Act 3, Scene 2
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I've thought about it for a very long time, and I still don't understand what love is. Justice is simple. Democracy is simple. Those things are unambivalent. But love is very hard. And it goes bad for you if you violate the hard law of love.
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Perestroika: Act 2, Scene 1
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That ludicrous spectacle in there, just a parody of the funeral of someone who really counted. We don't; faggots; we're just a bad dream the world is having, and the real world's waking up. And he's dead.
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Perestroika: Act 4, Scene 3
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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.
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Perestroika: Act 5, Scene 3
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He was a terrible person. He died a hard death. So maybe... A queen can forgive her vanquished foe. It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet. Peace, at last. Isn't that what the Kaddish asks for?
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