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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" In listening to the narratives of the Congolese, I came to terms with the extent to which their bodies had become battlefields. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The act of saying what you do helps shape you as an artist. "

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

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

Procrastination

" 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 try to be led by my curiosity. "

" 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. "

" Replace judgment with curiosity. "

" My interest in theatre and storytelling began in my mother's kitchen. It was a meeting place for my mother's large circle of friends. "

" I think sometimes you need distance to reflect. "

" I am a storyteller by trade. "

" 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. "

" Broadway's never my end goal because of the plays I write. These are tough plays. Of course there's a lot of humor, but my goal is just to reach as wide an audience as possible, however that happens. "

" My hobby is raising my children. "