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

- Margo Jefferson

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…

- Margo Jefferson

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.

- Margo Jefferson

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…

- Margo Jefferson

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…

- Margo Jefferson

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 …

- Margo Jefferson

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…

- Margo Jefferson

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…

- Margo Jefferson

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

- Margo Jefferson