I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities.

I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.

I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that's not why I write.

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.