I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.

Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.

Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.