Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

" I'm always hyperaware of the way in which working people are portrayed on the stage. "

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

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

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

" I can't quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the seemingly endless war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but I knew that I wanted to somehow tell the stories of the Congolese women caught in the cross-fire. "

" 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. "

" African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler Perry's career. His films open with $25 million almost consistently. "

" 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. "

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

" I love Twitter. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My hobby is raising my children. "

" I wonder: Would there be a black president if people hadn't already begun imagining, through film and television, that a black man is president? It's self-actualization. "

" 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. "

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

" I think sometimes you need distance to reflect. "

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

" 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'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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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