Masiela Lusha

"Although I was quiet as a child, I had this resistless passion inside of me–this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry filled that void, and its words fed that vital necessity of ownership."

"Every one of us strives to be a better person; and if I am to contribute one thing of myself, it would be compassion."

"I would much rather sit, dimmed by inattention, and study the atmosphere and the silence and dance between people, but often times I’m not offered this privilege. The necessity for isolation, and the …"

"It is the show that keeps giving. Every night it offers something to society, and it offered something to every one of us. It brought us all together for a lifetime."

"It came about like a typical audition where the actress doesn’t know a soul in the room, and exposes her heart and vulnerability in hopes of winning a handful of strangers’ affection."

"Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem."

"In the end we're all searching for our home, that one place where we belong."

"My mother's only wish was to start a life in America because America was the cradle of every promise and opportunity."