I write for myself and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

Comedy strikes here... just to reduce pressure and depression.

Every beautiful thing that life has to offer, demands the habit of relentlessness.

Sometimes humility is ego in disguise.

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

There's no point in bringing together a talented band if you don't let them do their thing.

Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.

It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans.

Every man should stay within his own fortune. [Lat., Intera fortunam quisque debet manere suam.]

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.