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.

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.

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.

Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.

The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control.

If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a purpose. You are not going in there as a tourist.

The less you have, the less you have to worry about.

Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.

The yajna of our age and for us is the spinning wheel.

It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence

Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.

We're genuinely happy if some musicians of this younger generation are influenced by our music, as we were ourselves influenced 10 years ago by older musicians.

The secret to a really great friendship is just creating fun memories whenever you're with that person.