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

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

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

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is no idea that can't be contained by life: Asian life, European life, certainly black life. My plays are about love, honor, duty, betrayal - things humans have written about since the beginning of time.

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