You are responsible for the world that you live in.

My greatest influence has been the blues. And that's a literary influence, because I think the blues is the best literature that we as black Americans have.

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

I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible.

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

When the sins of our fathers visit us We do not have to play host. We can banish them with forgiveness As God, in his His Largeness and Laws.

You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.