A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.

Just because it’s a unique perspective doesn’t mean it can’t offer something universal.

I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway. I said, 'Well, how do we know? How do we know if we don't do it?' I said, 'I think you're wrong.'

In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.

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

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.

Each play I write has its own unique origin story.

I need a release from whatever I'm writing.

When the play is still evolving I try to be at rehearsal as often as possible, and part of that casting process. You find new things when the language is living in different people's mouths.

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.

Because it works it doesn't mean it is necessary right. One can be sincerely and successfully wrong~Dad to his son (Psalms 37:7)

You are always a gardener. What grow - and how it grows - is up to you.

Whatever you choose to do with your time on earth, do it passionately, follow the voice of your soul and don't focus some much on being interested in life, but being the interesting one full of life.

But prayer isn't asking God to do what we want. Prayer is asking God to what is right.

All mankind is sitting on Death Row. How we die or when is not the main issue, but where [we] go after death.

Understanding doesn't leave room for anger, hurt or fear.

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence.

The higher the goal, the harder the climb, but after that the bigger the muscle the, smarter the mind.

Because my love for you is beyond words, I decided to shut up.

Faith, Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.