113 Quotes by Lynn Nottage

What I often do when I'm writing, if I can't find that story, I go out and I hunt for it.

In many ways, I consider those to be my formative years, because when you're in school, you have a distant relationship to the world in that most of what you're learning is from books and lectures. But at Amnesty, I came face to face with realities in a very direct and harsh way.

Even in Congo, where conflicts are happening, people have births, weddings, deaths, and celebrations.

Here's the dilemma of the modern age: There used to be actions that workers could take, in the form of a strike. But now, that's being pre-empted by lockouts. They don't even have that leverage to protect their jobs.

Once working people discover that, collectively, we have more power than we do as individual silos, then we become an incredibly powerful force. But I think that there are powers that be that are invested in us remaining divided along racial lines, along economic lines.

Silence is complicity. I believe that.

I'm always hyperaware of the way in which working people are portrayed on the stage.

There's never any ebb in human misery.

It's very easy, when we're reading those articles on the 20th page of 'The New York Times,' to distance ourselves and say, 'It's someone else.'