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Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.

August Wilson

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August Wilson
Age: 60 †
Born: 1945
Born: April 27
Died: 2005
Died: October 2
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Frederick August Kittel
Frederick August Kittel
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August Kittel
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All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.
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I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.
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All you need is the blues. To me, the blues is the book, it's the bible, it's everything.
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Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.
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What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use?
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As long as the colored man look to white folks to put the crown on what he say . . . as long as he looks to white folks for approval . . . then he ain't never gonna find out who he is and what he's about.
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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 or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along.
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Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.
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All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.
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Life don't owe you nothing.
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Style ain't nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end. Everybody got it.
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Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.
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I believe in the American theatre. I believe in its power to inform about the human condition, its power to heal ... its power to uncover the truths we wrestle from uncertain and sometimes unyielding realities.
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I dont write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but thats not why I write.
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Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.
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I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself. - Troy -
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My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.
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I don't write for a particular audience.
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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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