Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.

I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself. - Troy -

When the sins of our fathers visit us We do not have to play host. We can banish them with forgiveness As God, in his His Largeness and Laws.

. . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940's that was supposed to be somehow representative of black American life, and I didn't have any women in there. And I knew that wasn't going to work.

There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.