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All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.
August Wilson
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August Wilson
Age: 60 †
Born: 1945
Born: April 27
Died: 2005
Died: October 2
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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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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Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.
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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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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 art out of their dialogue I had to change it, make it into something different. Once I learned to value and respect my characters, I could really hear them. I let them start talking.
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Style ain't nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end. Everybody got it.
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