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

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.

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.

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

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

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.