I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

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

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.

I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

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.