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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
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Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.
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What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use?
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You are responsible for the world that you live in. It is not government's responsibility. It is not your school's or your social club's or your church's or your neighbor's or your fellow citizen's. It is yours, utterly and singularly yours.
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Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.
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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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. . . 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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You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.
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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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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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Style ain't nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end. Everybody got it.
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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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I dont write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but thats not why I write.
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I don't write for a particular audience.
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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 cried a river of tears but he was too heavy to float on them. So I dragged him with me these years across an ocean.
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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 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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