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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I would like there to be gender equity. I would like the Broadway season to reflect sort of the demographic of the country. "

" 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. "

" I love Twitter. "

" Silence is complicity. I believe that. "

" Broadway is a closed ecosystem. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" As a woman of color, slowly and with some coercing, the not-for-profit theaters around the country are beginning to recognize and embrace the power of our stories, but with regards to Broadway and other commercial venues, we remain very much marginalized and excluded from that larger creative conversation. "

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

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

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

" My grandfather was a Pullman porter, and my father put his way through college by cleaning floors at night in the libraries. I understand that working people are in some way the bedrock of my existence and the existence of many people here. "

" 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. "

" Replace judgment with curiosity. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "