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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you begin a play, you're going to have to spend a lot of time with those characters, so those characters are going to have to be rich enough that you want to take a very long journey with them. That's how I begin thinking about what I want to write about and who I want to write about. "

" The presence of a bed changes the way people interact. "

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

" I think of myself as a healing artist. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There were not a lot of women in the theater department - it was really run by men, and so the message was that women can be onstage, but women can't really be backstage. "

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

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

Procrastination

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

" Broadway is a closed ecosystem. "

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

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