It is expensive to give plays subtitles, especially for a short run, so most new dramas rarely cross the transcontinental bridge.

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.

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.

I always felt like Broadway was not for me - in terms of ticket price, in terms of what was on there. I never saw myself reflected in the mirror of the Great White Way.

We don't need to be a pro photographer for making a photo or an experienced author for making quotes, everyone can make photos and quotes.

Many often errors lead to discoveries, but our fantasies and limitations are tested by blunders!

Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

The only reason I got into stand-up was because my brother told me to. I had no idea what I was going to do with my life. I was 17 and my brother went to a comedy club and he said - you can do that.

The first 90 minutes of the match are the most important.

Through being "right", you feel superior and through feeling superior you strengthen your sense of self. In reality, of course, you are only strengthening the illusion of ego.

School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught.

We have an electorate that doesn't always pay that much attention to what's going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or truth or what's happening.

I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture.

I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.