I grew up in a family that valued work.  Idle hands were not so much the devil’s workshop (as may well have been true for my more distant ancestors on both sides of my immediate family) but were simply unimaginable. Why would you choose to be lazy when there was…

There is no single play more important to me than For Colored Girls… Hearing that Tyler Perry is going to helm a film version of it initially made my heart sink. The obvious reason I felt that way is that For Colored Girls… is a nuanced, sublime and radical piece…