Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

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

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

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.

So somehow, things that seem extraneous to the play in reality are not. The scene lasts 37 minutes, and you only need 12 minutes of that for the plot. But if you pull the rest of it out, it's not my play.

Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.