There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I write for myself and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“Don't try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sure they doing right… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I try to explore, in terms of the life I know best, those things which are common to all cultures. — August Wilson Copy Share Image
The details of our struggle to survive and prosper, in what has been a difficult and sometimes bitter relationship with a system… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is no idea that can't… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
There are always and only two trains running. There is life and there is death. Each of us rides them both. To… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I am not a historian. I happen to think that the content of my mother's life - her myths, her superstitions, her… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“Don't you think I ever wanted other things? Don't you think I had dreams and hopes? What about my life? What about… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully. — August Wilson Copy Share Image
From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality. — August Wilson Copy Share Image
. . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940's that was supposed to… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I think the play offers (white Americans) a different way to look at black Americans For instance, in 'Fences' they see a… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“Like you? I go out of here every morning… bust my butt…putting up with them crackers everyday…cause I like you? You about… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Most of black America is in housing projects, without jobs, living on welfare. And this is not the case in 'The Cosby Show,' because… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I just write stuff down and pile it up, and when I get enough stuff, I spread it out and look at it and… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't look at our society today too much. My focus is still in the past, and part of the reason is because what… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
The director works as an interpretive artist, but he's still an artist, so you also have to give him room to create and to… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to the main… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
When I first started writing plays I couldn't write good dialogue because I didn't respect how black people talked. I thought that in order… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“Like you? I go out of here every morning...bust my butt...cause I like you? It's my job. It's my responsibility!... Not cause I like… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“-How long you been with the rail road now? -Twenty-seven years. Now, I'll tell you something about the railroad. What I done learned after… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Scripts were rather scarce in 1968. We did a lot of Amiri Baraka's plays, the agitprop stuff he was writing. It was at a… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't write for a particular audience. I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
