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

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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. "

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

" I try to be led by my curiosity. "

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" Saying, 'I'm going to create jobs' is great, but before you create jobs, something has to be offered to alleviate some of the suffering now. "

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

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

" I think folks who are resistant to engaging in art become less so once they encounter art that really reflects them. "

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

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

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

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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. "

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

" 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 always describe race as the final taboo in American theatre. There's a real reluctance to have that conversation in an open, honest way on the stage. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I've been asked a lot why didn't 'Ruined' go to Broadway. It was the most successful play that Manhattan Theatre Club has ever had in that particular space, and yet we couldn't find a home on Broadway. "

" 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. "

" 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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" In many ways, I consider those to be my formative years, because when you're in school, you have a distant relationship to the world in that most of what you're learning is from books and lectures. But at Amnesty, I came face to face with realities in a very direct and harsh way. "

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