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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" It's incumbent on us to reach beyond the confines of the institutions that traditionally produce art and find new ways to get it to the people. "

" 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. "

" Silence is complicity. I believe that. "

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

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

" We use metaphors to express our own truths. "

" I teach at Columbia, and I'm always looking for books I can lose myself in during the 45 minutes I'm on the train. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Replace judgment with curiosity. "

" I am a storyteller by trade. "

" 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. "

" I think of myself as a healing artist. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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