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" 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. "

Lynn Nottage

People

Women

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" 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 knew that there was a great deal of depth and life that was sitting just beyond my mother's gaze. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" Here's the dilemma of the modern age: There used to be actions that workers could take, in the form of a strike. But now, that's being pre-empted by lockouts. They don't even have that leverage to protect their jobs. "

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

" 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. "

" Before I start, I create a set list that I listen to while I'm writing. For 'Intimate Apparel,' I loaded Erik Satie, Scott Joplin, klezmer music, and the American jazz performer and composer Reginald Robinson. "

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

" I'm a schizophrenic writer. "

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Schizophrenic

" I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway. I said, 'Well, how do we know? How do we know if we don't do it?' I said, 'I think you're wrong.' "

" Like Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, I try to balance reality with how we'd like the world to be. "

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

" 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. "

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

" We live in a global society, and I don't think we can talk about, quote unquote, 'American themes' anymore. "

" 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. "

" There's never any ebb in human misery. "

" Who wants to see the same play again? I certainly don't want to write the same play again and again. "

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

" It remains an incredible struggle for women in theater, and, in particular, playwrights and directors, to get their work seen and to not only get seen, but to get it to Broadway. "

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

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

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