Author: August Wilson

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I haven't read Ibsen, Shaw, Shakespeare - except 'The Merchant of Venice' in ninth grade. I'm not familiar with 'Death of a Salesman.' I haven't read Tennessee Williams.

I haven't read Ibsen, Shaw, Shakespeare - except 'The Merchant of Venice' in ninth grade. I'm not familiar with 'Death of a Salesman.' I haven't read Tennessee Williams.

- August Wilson

I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.

I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.

- August Wilson

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

- August Wilson

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

- August Wilson

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

- August Wilson

From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality.

From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality.

- August Wilson

I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities.

I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities.

- 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.

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

How do we transform loss? ... Time's healing balm is essentially a hoax.

How do we transform loss? ... Time's healing balm is essentially a hoax.

- August Wilson

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