"From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness……" — August Wilson
"From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality."
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55 Quotes by August Wilson
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- Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.
- Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.
- The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.
- I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is no idea…
- I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't…
- You got to take the crookeds with the straights. That's what Papa used to say.
- As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
- Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets…
- Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the…
- For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I…
- Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.
- I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
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