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.

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.

Leaders create and maintain good interpersonal relationships with people they meet and work with. People who lead better relate better.

True spirituality is not taught, it's caught. Once our sails have been unfurled to the Spirit, henceforth our motivation for the journey toward holiness and wholeness is immense gratitude.

it crossed Farren's mind that although death seemed big, life was even bigger

Modern kitchen - where the pot calls the kettle chartreuse.

I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.

Why does naming a thing give it so much power?

I'm so proud to be Canadian. I've been to 58 countries, and they're wonderful countries, but Canada is the best.

When I first go out on stage, there are tummy bubbles everywhere.

If a President of the United States ever lied to the American people, he should resign.

The Sabbath, as now recognized and enforced, is one of the main pillars of Priestcraft and Superstition, and the stronghold of a merely ceremonial Religion.