The merchant has no country.
But when I got to SMU and decided to take a playwriting class, I said this isn't a bad idea. IfI write characters, they could be as dumb as me, and I don't have to be very smart.
I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays
The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.
My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.
But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright
You are fighting against nothingness all the time by creating a series of shields that you call personality, life history, feelings, ideas, and ways of seeing.
[T]he Constitution was a product of its times. [Progressive]
I like to have a simple workplace.
A friend of mine said that when Barack Obama was running for president, there was a whole generation of white kids who are used to looking up to a black person center stage speaking. And that's because of hip-hop. So there was no adjustment. A person of color in authority at times is very startling to people. But as time goes on, it becomes less startling.