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• Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.
• Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.
• The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.
• I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is no idea that can't…
• I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to…
• You got to take the crookeds with the straights. That's what Papa used to say.
• As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
• Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once…
• Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
• For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to…
• Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.
• I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.

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