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I learned that if we embrace what's happening, we are also embracing what is possible - and a road opens up for God to meet us halfway.

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Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

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Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth.

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I love my lecture tours. I get up onstage. I have my stack of books and a glass of water and a microphone. No podium, no distance between me and the audience, and I just talk to people and get all excited and tell a lot of jokes, and sing some songs, and read from my work and remind people how powerful they are and how beautiful they are.

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My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental.

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I love beautiful black-and-white movies - anything Bette Davis, especially 'Now', 'Voyager', 'Casablanca', 'Mildred Pierce'; anything by Orson Welles, Truffaut, or Godard; and 'Paper Moon' by Peter Bogdanovich.

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The writing of 'Topdog' was a great gift. I feel the play came to me because I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it.

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I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means.

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Being a playwright of any race is difficult, and Lord knows it gets more difficult the further you get from the middle of the road. I don't know what kind of magic my mojo is working, but it's working.

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Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: May 10th, 1963

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