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" For me, the first thing is to tell a good story. "

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" It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way. "

" I don't think any of us could predict Trump. Trump is the stuff of nightmares. But in talking to people, I knew there was a tremendous level of disaffection and anger and sorrow. I know people felt misrepresented and voiceless. "

" There is an enduring feeling that women can write domestic dramas but don't have the muscularity or the vision to write state-of-the-nation narratives. "

" I am a storyteller by trade. "

" 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. "

" I try to be led by my curiosity. "

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

" The stage is the last bastion of segregation. "

" I think sometimes you need distance to reflect. "

" Even in Congo, where conflicts are happening, people have births, weddings, deaths, and celebrations. "

" In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity. "

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

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

" If you're looking at the people who head the institutions, there are very few African Americans or people of colour. I'm talking about the major theatres that position themselves as serving all audiences. What you find is, by and large, people who are shaping what we see, and the people who are the tastemakers are white. "

" The more you go to a theatre and the more you hear stories you aren't necessarily familiar with, the more open you become. "

" When I sat in rooms with middle-aged white men, I heard them speaking like young black men in America. They had been solidly middle class for the majority of their working careers, but now they were feeling angry, disaffected, and in some cases, they actually had tears in their eyes. "

" I am interested in people living in the margins of society, and I do have a mission to tell the stories of women of colour in particular. I feel we've been present throughout history, but our voices have been neglected. "

" My hobby is raising my children. "

" By and large, the theatre establishment is run by a white majority. "

" I do see myself as an old-fashioned storyteller. But there's always a touch of the political in my plays. "

" My fears about where theater is going - it's the Hollywood model, where people are chasing the almighty dollar and making commercial decisions based on nothing more than generating income for themselves and their theaters. "

" I've been asked a lot why didn't 'Ruined' go to Broadway. It was the most successful play that Manhattan Theatre Club has ever had in that particular space, and yet we couldn't find a home on Broadway. "

" I always describe race as the final taboo in American theatre. There's a real reluctance to have that conversation in an open, honest way on the stage. "

" 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. "

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

" The people sometimes who are closest to us are the ones who bear the brunt of our frustration. "

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

" We need to diversify the people who are backstage and producing and marketing these shows. It's the limitations of these people that are holding Broadway back. "