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" I'm interested in people who are dwelling outside the mainstream. And very often, those people happen to be woman of color. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Broadway is a closed ecosystem. "

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

" The person whose work introduced me to the craft was Lorraine Hansberry. The person who taught me to love the craft was Tennessee Williams. The person who really taught me the power of the craft was August Wilson, and the person who taught me the political heft of the craft was Arthur Miller. "

" Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics. "

" For me, playwriting is sharing my experiences, telling my stories. "

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

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

" 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. "

" It is such a joy to join a legacy of amazing female playwrights who have managed to break through the glass ceiling and reinvigorate the Broadway stage by bringing a fresh and necessary perspective. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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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. "

" 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.' "

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

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

" Replace judgment with curiosity. "