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

I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself. - Troy -

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.

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

I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut out of the same cloth. That's who I am; that's who I write about.

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.

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