Pearl Cleage

“Denzel Washington is a big Hollywood movie star now. But he started out as an actor in the Negro Ensemble company.”

“Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that.”

“I think one of the things that writers and creative artists generally have to deal with is the censors that we have in our heads, the voices that we have that say you better not tell that and don't tell that, and people will think you're not a good girl, and your grandmother's going to be mad at you and all of those things.”

“I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're falling in love.”