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 you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

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

I don't write for a particular audience.

As long as the colored man look to white folks to put the crown on what he say . . . as long as he looks to white folks for approval . . . then he ain't never gonna find out who he is and what he's about.

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use?