In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality.

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

...and it struck her as the truest form of kindness, the most basic sort of love: to be worried about the one who was worrying about you.

If you give audiences a chance they'll do half your acting for you.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people they think it's their fault.

Let's face it, war in its essence is another form of capitalism.

That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It consists of one hundred billion suns. Now I think we are small enough.

The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

It's hard to imagine her ever having felt lost, but it's impossible to know the people your parents were before they were your parents.

I was quiet. If I really wanted to say something, I would. I just wasn't interested in saying anything.

If you don't see the Internet as an opportunity, it will become a threat. In two or three year's time, the Internet will become as commonplace in the office as the telephone.

Coo...coo... here comes the dove from above!