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

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

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.

I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means.

The first time I went over to [my director's] house, he said to me, This is a very strange play. I was pleased that he reminded me of that. [He] understands the play [VENUS] intellectually and emotionally and the humor, the funny bone.

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

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.