Adrienne Kennedy

“I believe that the personal is the political, and my work is a testament to that.”

“I'm obsessed with the idea of the mirror, the mirror-image, the double.”

“My plays are about the ambiguity of my blackness, the layers of it.”

“Violence is the seed of my work. It has to be there.”

“I wanted to write on the stages of the world the questions I had in my heart.”

“I believe that the subconscious is the great writer.”

“The real journey of my life has been to come to terms with my own whiteness as well as my blackness.”

“My characters are always in a state of fragmentation.”

“I always felt my writing was an attempt to save my own life.”

“My work is about being in a room with the ghosts of the past.”

“The secrets of a family are the secrets of a nation.”

“People are islands. They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate.”

“When one is a writer, one is a writer. It is an identity. A calling.”