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

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" 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. "

" I know what I'm trying to say, so I'm always open to learning how to say it. "

" Broadway is a closed ecosystem. "

" I'm a contemporary playwright in a postmodern world. "

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

" By the sheer act of writing, we are trying to place value on the stories that we're invested in. "

" 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.' "

" It remains an incredible struggle for women in theater, and, in particular, playwrights and directors, to get their work seen and to not only get seen, but to get it to Broadway. "

" Winning the second Pulitzer firmly places me in conversation with this culture. "

" My fears about where theater is going - it's the Hollywood model, where people are chasing the almighty dollar and making commercial decisions based on nothing more than generating income for themselves and their theaters. "

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

" I would like there to be gender equity. I would like the Broadway season to reflect sort of the demographic of the country. "

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

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

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

" I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and some even crawl out of the dusty remote recesses of my imagination. "

" American audiences very rarely deal with material outside their borders. "

" I think sometimes you need distance to reflect. "

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

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

" I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive. "

" I wouldn't say I see my work as having a political ideology. Lynn Nottage certainly has a political ideology. I think that the work is an extension of who I am, but I don't think that when I write the play I'm looking to push the audience one way or another. "

" The stage is the last bastion of segregation. "

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

" 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.' "

" It's incumbent on us to reach beyond the confines of the institutions that traditionally produce art and find new ways to get it to the people. "

" In my family history, there are generations of women who were abandoned by men. It's one of the themes of my family. "

" 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. "

" I don't think any of us could predict Trump. Trump is the stuff of nightmares. But in talking to people, I knew there was a tremendous level of disaffection and anger and sorrow. I know people felt misrepresented and voiceless. "