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I cried a river of tears but he was too heavy to float on them. So I dragged him with me these years across an ocean.

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

When your daddy walked through the house he was so big he filled it up. That was my first mistake. Not to make him leave room for me.

I hope this leads you to where you're going.

Sometimes you're lucky and you don't even know it.

I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.

When the sins of our fathers visit us
We do not have to play host.
We can banish them with forgiveness
As God, in his His Largeness and Laws.

You die how you live.

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

I give you sugar for sugar
And salt for salt
If you can't get along with me
It's your own damn fault.

i love music more than food!!!!!!!!!!

You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.

Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

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

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.

What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use?

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.

All you need is the blues. To me, the blues is the book, it's the bible, it's everything.

Why God got to be so big? Why he got to be bigger than me?

If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.

Eli: Freedom is what you make it.

Solly: That's what I'm saying. You got to fight to make it mean something.

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

Herald Loomis, you shining! You shining like new money!

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.

Style ain't nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end. Everybody got it.

I may be personable, but I assure you I am a lion.

Life don't owe you nothing.

Sometimes you find bad luck and good luck in the same place.

You jumped but I'm falling too.

Everybody in a hurry to slow down.

You can put law on paper but that don't make it right.

You can't visit the sins of the father upon the child.

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

I was born to a time of fire.

I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.

I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch it. I saw half of 'Oprah' one time. I'd rather read.

Some people carry their luck with them and people got to find it.

In the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

You got to take the crookeds with the straights. That's what Papa used to say.

I dropped out of school when I was 15 years old. I dropped out because I guess I wasn't getting anything out of my investment in the school.

I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible ...

Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.

For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.

I don't need nobody to bleed for me! I can bleed for myself.

I just want to come and sit on your front porch and drink mint juleps.

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

Land [is] the only thing God ain't making no more of.

Love don't know no age and it don't know no experience.

He living too far in the past.

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

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

I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.

You should have held me tight. You should have grabbed me and held on.