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

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" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

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

" Here's the dilemma of the modern age: There used to be actions that workers could take, in the form of a strike. But now, that's being pre-empted by lockouts. They don't even have that leverage to protect their jobs. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We use metaphors to express our own truths. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Broadway is a closed ecosystem. "

" 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. "

" I'm a schizophrenic writer. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 try to be led by my curiosity. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In listening to the narratives of the Congolese, I came to terms with the extent to which their bodies had become battlefields. "

" 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 think sometimes you need distance to reflect. "