In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.

The revolution begins at home.

When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.

Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.

Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.

The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth

The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.