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" The stage is the last bastion of segregation. "

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" My interest in theatre and storytelling began in my mother's kitchen. It was a meeting place for my mother's large circle of friends. "

" 'Ruined' was a play which was somewhat of an anomaly in that I did not take a commission until it was finished because I really wanted to explore the subject matter unencumbered. Otherwise, I felt as though I'd have the voice of dramaturges and literary managers saying, 'This is great, but we'll never be able to produce it.' "

" Broadway's never my end goal because of the plays I write. These are tough plays. Of course there's a lot of humor, but my goal is just to reach as wide an audience as possible, however that happens. "

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

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

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

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" We use metaphors to express our own truths. "

" Broadway is a closed ecosystem. "

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

" I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" All of my plays are about people who have been marginalized... erased from the public record. "

" 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. "

" I try to be led by my curiosity. "

" When you're fighting for an increasingly smaller portion of the pie, you turn against each other; you create reasons to hate each other. "

" 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.' "

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

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