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All you need is the blues. To me, the blues is the book, it's the bible, it's everything.

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
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Everything

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I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible.
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I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is no idea that can't be contained by life: Asian life, European life, certainly black life. My plays are about love, honor, duty, betrayal - things humans have written about since the beginning of time.
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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 dont write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but thats not why I write.
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Style ain't nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end. Everybody got it.
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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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Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.
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All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.
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All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.
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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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Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.
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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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You are responsible for the world that you live in.
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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 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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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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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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The details of our struggle to survive and prosper, in what has been a difficult and sometimes bitter relationship with a system of laws and practices that deny us access to the tools necessary for productive and industrious life, are available to any serious student of history or sociology.
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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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