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

Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

The details of our struggle to survive and prosper, in what has been a difficult and sometimes bitter relationship with a system of laws and practices that deny us access to the tools necessary for productive and industrious life, are available to any serious student of history or sociology.

If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.

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

For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.

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