If you say a word often enough it becomes you.

You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.

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.

When I was a kid, my grandfather said that "if you say a word often enough, it becomes you." Thinking of that later in life gave me this idea that I could try to become America by learning the words of people from many aspects of the country.

I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.

That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.