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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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" I wrote 'Ruined' and 'Vera Stark' at the same time. That's just how my brain functions - when I'm dwelling someplace very heavy, I need a release. "

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

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

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

" Growing up in New York City, I'd flirted with the idea of driving, but between the subway and the sidewalks, I'd never needed to learn. "

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

" We use metaphors to express our own truths. "

" Silence is complicity. I believe that. "

" I try to be led by my curiosity. "

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

" By the time I reached 50, I'd accumulated many unresolved fears and desires. "

" 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 think sometimes you need distance to reflect. "

" 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 do see myself as an old-fashioned storyteller. But there's always a touch of the political in my plays. "

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