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Life don't owe you nothing.
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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Style ain't nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end. Everybody got it.
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. . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940's that was supposed to be somehow representative of black American life, and I didn't have any women in there. And I knew that wasn't going to work.
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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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Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.
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Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.
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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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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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You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.
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Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.
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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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I don't write for a particular audience.
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I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible.
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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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I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
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All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.
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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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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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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 cause your angels to sing.
August Wilson
