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Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.

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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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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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All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.
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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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Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.
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Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.
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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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What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use?
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Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and their attitudes, the stance that they adopt in the world, are all ideas and attitudes that are expressed in the blues.
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You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.
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Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.
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I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.
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Style ain't nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end. Everybody got it.
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I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show' I just don't watch it. I saw half of 'Oprah' one time. I'd rather read.
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I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black Americans, to make a connection with our past in order to determine the kind of future we're going to have. In other words, we simply need to know who we are in relation to our historical presence in America.
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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 splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.
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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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I think that as a playwright, if I detail that environment, then I'm taking away something from them [designers]. I'm taking away their creativity and their ability to have input themselves, not just to follow what the playwright has written. So I do a minimum set description and let the designers create within that.
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I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible.
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I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture they're all cut out of the same cloth. That's who I am that's who I write about.
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