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.

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.

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.

No text, being human creation, is free from flaws – it is the human mind that should be conscientious enough to accept their good elements and discard the bad ones.

What prevents you from fully expressing yourself?

Have you had a 'relationship discussion' with God lately? Do you need to?

God is not bound by a body, yet He is a Person. He feels, He thinks, He loves, He forgives, He sympathizes with the problems and sorrows that we face.

That is a terrible plan.""Hiccup's plans are always t-terrible.""Hey! You're still here, aren't you?

What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.

The True Measure Of Success is determined by your home life.

I know who the demon thief is - it's me!

I worked in a barbershop. I used to make the waves in the brother's hair, you know? Like, Nat King Cole, Sugar Ray Robinson.

I really do like working very closely with a director and developing characters.