Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth.

And as you walk yr road, as you live yr life, RELISH THE ROAD. And relish the fact that the road of yr life will probably be a windy road.

I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially Now, Voyager, Casablanca, Mildred Pierce; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and Paper Moon by Peter Bogdanovich.

My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library.

My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship - the idea that black people are from outer space, theres a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people.

Quality is like quantity, but there's a lot less of it.

Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.