Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.

Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.

I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut out of the same cloth. That's who I am; that's who I write about.

You got to take the crookeds with the straights. That's what Papa used to say.

For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.