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.'

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

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.

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.

I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.

Science is for crowds what art is for individuals

It is the worst people in your life that teach you the best lessons.

Asking the questions - that's what changes lives. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry. And you cannot believe the old thoughts again.

If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock and roll is; it's relentless.

Visualization lets you concentrate on all the positive aspects of your game.

Brokenness involves removing inappropriate pride and self-reliance and building healthy God-reliance.

There are only so many skaters like Brian Orser. Nobody is going to just step into his shoes.

True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It's getting people to play beyond their potential

I like to think I'm pretty smart with what I was able to do academically, but whenever I get on the field I turn into the Incredible Hulk and I am unstoppable.