It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

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

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and attitudes, the stance they adopt in the world, are all ideas and attitudes that are expressed in the blues.

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.