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

Style ain't nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end. Everybody got it.

I write for myself and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

There are always and only two trains running. There is life and there is death. Each of us rides them both. To live life with dignity, to celebrate and accept responsibility for your presence in the world is all that can be asked of anyone.

A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response, the communal nature of the audience is like having five hundred people read your novel and respond to it at the same time. I find that thrilling.

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 -