Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.

Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so - doubly dynamic - to be young, gifted and black.

Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?

Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.

Mama - Mama - I want so many things... I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.

I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific. Universality, I think, emerges from truthful identity of what is.