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

I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible.

- 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.

- August Wilson

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

- August Wilson

Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

- August Wilson

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

- 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…

- 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…

- August Wilson