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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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August Wilson
Age: 60 †
Born: 1945
Born: April 27
Died: 2005
Died: October 2
Playwright
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Pittsburg
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Frederick August Kittel
Frederick August Kittel
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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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Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.
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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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What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use?
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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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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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Life don't owe you nothing.
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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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Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.
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You are responsible for the world that you live in.
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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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A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response, the communal nature of the audience is like having five hundred people read your novel and respond to it at the same time. I find that thrilling.
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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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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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I dont write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but thats not why I write.
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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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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 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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