"I'm trying to take culture and put it……" — August Wilson
"I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is no idea that can't be contained by life: Asian life, European life, certainly black life. My plays are about love, honor, duty, betrayal - things humans have written about since the beginning of time."
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55 Quotes by August Wilson
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Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.
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Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.
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The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.
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I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't…
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You got to take the crookeds with the straights. That's what Papa used to say.
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As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
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Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets…
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Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the…
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For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I…
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Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.
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I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
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I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s…
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