The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.

I am not myself; I am the potential of myself.

You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.

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.

Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.