You are responsible for the world that you live in. It is not government's responsibility. It is not your school's or your social club's or your church's or your neighbor's or your fellow citizen's. It is yours, utterly and singularly yours.

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.

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

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

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

You are responsible for the world that you live in. It is not government's responsibility. It is not your school's or your social club's or your church's or your neighbor's or your fellow citizen's. It is yours, utterly and singularly yours.