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

I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.

There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.

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

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

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.

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.