I've lived a blessed life. I'm ready.

There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.

From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality.

I try to explore, in terms of the life I know best, those things which are common to all cultures.

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.

The way I see it, the stage tells the story for the ear, and the screen for the eye... On stage, you can't really control where the viewer's eye goes; there's a whole stage picture there, and the viewer can be looking anywhere. But with the camera, if you want the viewer to look at something in particular, you can put their eye there.