. . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940's that was supposed to be somehow representative of black American life, and I didn't have any women in there. And I knew that wasn't going to work.
You are responsible for the world that you live in. It is not government's responsibility. It is not your school's or your social club's or your chur… - August Wilson
You are responsible for the world that you live in. It is not government's responsibility. It is not your school's or your social club's or your chur…
- August Wilson
You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else. - August Wilson
You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.
I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible. - August Wilson
I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible.
All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully. - August Wilson
All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.
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 other. - August Wilson
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 other.
Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief. - August Wilson
Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.
Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up. - August Wilson
Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.
Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cau… - August Wilson
Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cau…
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 to make a… - August Wilson
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 to make a…
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