"My artistic mandate up to that point had always been: “I’m not going to talk about things close to myself. I want to …"

"I think that’s a goal in all my plays honestly, to get into the personal, but to have a macro ramification, or to loo…"

"In terms of writing, I just wasn’t finding enough stories about contemporary African people—or historical, just anyth…"

"Meaningful communication is an aspect of who we are as human beings. You don’t need to know exactly what everyone’s s…"

"When I retired a couple of years ago and decided to get certified teaching, I told myself that I would want to help o…"

"This is a threat to my life."

"the farmer takes Jill down the well & all the king's horses & all the king's men can't put that baby together again c…"

"death is where jimi hendrix is, where our revolution ended up."

"There has always been something wrong wif the tesses. The tesses paint a picture of me wif no brain. The tesses paint…"

""I'm tired," I says. She says, "I know you are, but you can't stop now Precious, you gotta push." And I do."