Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.
Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music.
When I got to the end of this play, I realized I was trying to make Angel do something that had not been justified by the characters and by their story. . . . I kept trying to force it, but that doesn't work. So I had to come to terms with what it meant for me to create a character who doesn't triumph.
I've never been to Paris. I don't like to fly!
I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're falling in love.
a lot of brothers don't understand. When it comes to making love, reciprocity is everything.
I think the black community is no different from any other community. We need to take responsibility for how we live together. We need to be personally responsible for keeping our streets clean, our schools safe, and our houses peaceful.
A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life
A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood
I don't see what else you can spend your money on. . . If you want to own things, art is a pretty good bet.
Global warming is such a politically charged issue that we are losing our perspective on the issue and more importantly losing an open forum from which to discuss the issue. If we lose the right or comfort level to openly discuss and debate this issue we will not be able to tackle it efficiently and economically.