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

What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use?

I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.

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

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

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.

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.