Witty, brooding, contemplative, explosive: take your pick..

Depression is so treacherous - it can be so alluring as well as punishing. After all, it's yours and yours alone - no one else can interfere with it..

Depression isn't the almighty ruler of your destiny. Even its familiar traits - grief, anger, despair - you find that you can use in other ways. I ca….

The world I grew up in had both a literal and mythological quality. We were on the borders of several worlds - the larger black world bordered us on ….

Creativity isn't far away, or outside of you. It's an inner movement, a heart-shift, a joy making its way out of your throat or hands or feet. So go ….

The theater let me dramatize inner struggles, the push-pull between the inner life and the world, the various selves I presented according to what ea….

No one expects a Broadway musical comedy to be in the vanguard of what is bohemian, raunchy, folkloric, academic or aggressively experimental. That i….

I think the most harmful belief passed on to me - not always directly - was the belief that whatever I did as a Negro, however much we Negroes achiev….

For better or worse, there is not a situation in one's daily life that does not have feminist subtext, superstructure, implications and one is consta….

We talk about how we think, believe, suspect Michael Jackson treats children. We don't talk about how WE treat child stars. Child stars are abused by….