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

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.

My greatest influence has been the blues. And that's a literary influence, because I think the blues is the best literature that we as black Americans have.

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 -

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

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

I believe in the American theatre. I believe in its power to inform about the human condition, its power to heal ... its power to uncover the truths we wrestle from uncertain and sometimes unyielding realities.