So somehow, things that seem extraneous to the play in reality are not. The scene lasts 37 minutes, and you only need 12 minutes of that for the plot. But if you pull the rest of it out, it's not my play.

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

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they find themselves in. And contained in the blues is a philosophical system at work. And as part of the oral tradition, this is a way of passing along information.

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.

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 -