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" I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive. "

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

" Once working people discover that, collectively, we have more power than we do as individual silos, then we become an incredibly powerful force. But I think that there are powers that be that are invested in us remaining divided along racial lines, along economic lines. "

" I wouldn't say I see my work as having a political ideology. Lynn Nottage certainly has a political ideology. I think that the work is an extension of who I am, but I don't think that when I write the play I'm looking to push the audience one way or another. "

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

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

" I am a storyteller by trade. "

" Replace judgment with curiosity. "

" 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. "

" I was really interested in the way in which poverty and economic stagnation were transforming and corrupting the American narrative. "

" I would like there to be gender equity. I would like the Broadway season to reflect sort of the demographic of the country. "

" I feel like 'Sweat' arrived on Broadway at the moment that it needed to. I feel like a commercial audience was not prepared for 'Ruined' or 'Intimate Apparel' for many different reasons. "

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

" There was no way I was going to write about Africa and not include the triumphant continuity of life that had also been part of my experience there. It's not just war and famine all the time. "

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

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

" What I often do when I'm writing, if I can't find that story, I go out and I hunt for it. "

" In senior year at college, Paula Vogel was my playwriting teacher; she is the first person to introduce me to the notion that a woman could actually forge a career in the theatre. Up until then, the possibility seemed remote and inaccessible, as I had very few role models who directly touched my life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I love Twitter. "

" The essence of creativity is to look beyond where you can actually see. I don't want to dwell in same place too long. "

" I need a release from whatever I'm writing. "

" 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. "

" All of my plays are about people who have been marginalized... erased from the public record. "

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

" I think that human beings were incredibly resilient; otherwise, we wouldn't keep going. "

" 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. "