I'm always in disguise in one form or another in my plays.

Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.

As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre.

To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.

If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.

For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.

Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement.

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.

Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.

Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground.

It takes work to become the person you were created to be. You're worth the work!

i'm not a dreamerI Just believe in Allah (God)

Owe no man anything.

You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out.

The past does not define, you the present does.

Customer service. That is what it means.

Whether thats positive or not, people are talking about the Old Vic Theater again with passion and commitment and controversy and debate.

All artists are now free to express their own personality.

We never look beyond our assumptions and what's worse, we have given up trying to meet others; we just meet ourselves.