I need a release from whatever I'm writing.

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.

Each play I write has its own unique origin story.

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.

To be a world changer

I wanted to do this properly, but I look at you and I forget...

Theatre was my first love. I can't take the theatre out of me. And I wouldn't want to. To me, it's home.

When you teach, you learn.

Hope is not just one single quality or promise. Hope has to do with believing beyond today— knowing there’s a garden of beauty that awaits me.

Everything has an end.

These big Internationals, they don't let you down

I really do think of them as post-minimalist sculptures, inspired in large part by some very early spacecraft that NASA built.

Creating music and just having someone's art directs the way you think about life subconsciously.

Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.