Each play I write has its own unique origin story.

Just because it’s a unique perspective doesn’t mean it can’t offer something universal.

I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway. I said, 'Well, how do we know? How do we know if we don't do it?' I said, 'I think you're wrong.'

In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.

A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.

Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics.

It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way.

I need a release from whatever I'm writing.

When the play is still evolving I try to be at rehearsal as often as possible, and part of that casting process. You find new things when the language is living in different people's mouths.

I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.

Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends

There is no reason to contain your positive thoughts, words and emotions and many reasons to control your negative ones. Are you making the right choices?

Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile they are commonly planted too close.

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

I am good at down grading - I have found I can live the same lifestyle in a two-bedroom apartment as in a five-bedroom house.

If you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.

Men and women of every faithб and good people with none at allб sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.

Of course, not everybody's willing to go out and do the experiments, but for the people who are willing to go out and do that, - if the experiments don't work, then it means it's not science.

Everyone can be discontented if he ignores his blessings and looks only at his burdens.