Quotes from Suzan-Lori Parks

I learned that if we embrace what's happening, we are also embracing what is possible - and a road opens up for God to meet us halfway.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship - the idea that black people are from outer space, there's a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people.

My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library.