I always say that I'm a writer who writes more from place than race.

Don't let others put thoughts into your mind that takes away your self-confidence.

Serendipity always rewards the prepared.

Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.

Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

It is expensive to give plays subtitles, especially for a short run, so most new dramas rarely cross the transcontinental bridge.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

You don’t know what’s going to happen in the end, and that’s what the best plays are.

Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.

I always felt like Broadway was not for me - in terms of ticket price, in terms of what was on there. I never saw myself reflected in the mirror of the Great White Way.

The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.

Maybe it's better this way-that we keep our darknesses close, hidden in our minds, protected by our hearts.

I lay there under the stars and thought of what a great responsibility it is to be human.

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity. . . . We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.

Science and the many benefits that science has produced have played a crucial part in our history and produced vast improvements to human welfare.

Songs are like fish. You just gotta have your line in the water. And it's a bad idea to fish downstream from Bob Dylan.

If you think well, you cook well.

True abundance has nothing to do with what I am having, but everything to do with what I am being.

Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.