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" It's very easy, when we're reading those articles on the 20th page of 'The New York Times,' to distance ourselves and say, 'It's someone else.' "

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" 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. "

" My parents are avid consumers of art, collectors of African American paintings, and have always gone to the theater. My mother has always been an activist, too. As long as I can remember, we were marching in lines. "

" The great thing about 'Vera Stark' is that my research was watching movies, screwball comedies, so I could literally sit back and relax. "

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

" We live in a global society, and I don't think we can talk about, quote unquote, 'American themes' anymore. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I need a release from whatever I'm writing. "

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

" 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 love Twitter. "

" I like to go into a space, listen, absorb, and then interpret. "

" 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. "

" Replace judgment with curiosity. "

" We need to diversify the people who are backstage and producing and marketing these shows. It's the limitations of these people that are holding Broadway back. "

" For me, the first thing is to tell a good story. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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.' "

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

" A lot of the factories that had been the bedrock of many small cities were being shut down, which led me to investigate what I'm calling the 'de-industrial revolution.' "

" 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. "