The reason people think it's important to be white is that they think it's important not to be black.

If you have no wounds, how can you know if you're alive?

Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely.

That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.

People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter.

Art has an obligation to offend

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble.

This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.

If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.

In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.

I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.

Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.