I may be personable, but I assure you I am a lion.

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

I cried a river of tears but he was too heavy to float on them. So I dragged him with me these years across an ocean.

. . . 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.

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.

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

Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.