I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.

I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.

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

I don't write for a particular audience.

I dont write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but thats not why I write.

Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.