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" Each play I write has its own unique origin story. "

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" People probably have different philosophies about this, but I think that when you're first shaping the play and trying to find a character, the initial actors that develop it end up imprinting on it - you hear their voices; you hear their rhythms. You can't help but to begin to write toward them during the rehearsal process. "

" 'Ruined' was a play which was somewhat of an anomaly in that I did not take a commission until it was finished because I really wanted to explore the subject matter unencumbered. Otherwise, I felt as though I'd have the voice of dramaturges and literary managers saying, 'This is great, but we'll never be able to produce it.' "

" If you lead with the anger, it will turn off the audience. And what I want is the audience to engage with the material and to listen and then to ask questions. I think that 'Ruined' was very successful at doing that. "

" I remain committed to telling the stories of women of the African diaspora, particularly those stories that don't often find their way into the mainstream media. "

" When you're fighting for an increasingly smaller portion of the pie, you turn against each other; you create reasons to hate each other. "

" The presence of a bed changes the way people interact. "

" Winning the second Pulitzer firmly places me in conversation with this culture. "

" Saying, 'I'm going to create jobs' is great, but before you create jobs, something has to be offered to alleviate some of the suffering now. "

" I love Twitter. "

" I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past. "

" In my family history, there are generations of women who were abandoned by men. It's one of the themes of my family. "

" I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and some even crawl out of the dusty remote recesses of my imagination. "

" I think of myself as a healing artist. "

" Ultimately, we're incredibly resilient creatures. People really do get on with the business of living. "

" I'm always hyperaware of the way in which working people are portrayed on the stage. "

" I wonder: Would there be a black president if people hadn't already begun imagining, through film and television, that a black man is president? It's self-actualization. "

" I know what I'm trying to say, so I'm always open to learning how to say it. "

" I see procrastination and research as part of my artistic process. "

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" I'm a contemporary playwright in a postmodern world. "

" My hobby is raising my children. "

" Women are standing up and leaning forward and asserting their power. "

" The stage is the last bastion of segregation. "

" It's very important for me to have dialogues across racial lines. "

" As a woman of color, slowly and with some coercing, the not-for-profit theaters around the country are beginning to recognize and embrace the power of our stories, but with regards to Broadway and other commercial venues, we remain very much marginalized and excluded from that larger creative conversation. "

" I think folks who are resistant to engaging in art become less so once they encounter art that really reflects them. "

" I can't quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the seemingly endless war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but I knew that I wanted to somehow tell the stories of the Congolese women caught in the cross-fire. "

" The theatre should reflect America as it's lived in today. And that is a multicultural America. "

" If the Tony Awards want to remain relevant in the American theater conversation, then they need to embrace the true diversity of voices that populate the American theater. "

" I am a Tony voter; it is an honor that I take seriously. Each season, I enter the process with a degree of enthusiasm and optimism, which dissipates as I slowly plow through show after show. "

" In many ways, I consider those to be my formative years, because when you're in school, you have a distant relationship to the world in that most of what you're learning is from books and lectures. But at Amnesty, I came face to face with realities in a very direct and harsh way. "