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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. - August Wilson
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The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter. - August Wilson
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Pittsburgh is a very hard city, especially if you're black. - August Wilson
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I don't write for a particular audience. 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. - August Wilson
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Once I started to value and respect my characters, I could really hear them. I just let them start talking. - August Wilson
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Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history. - August Wilson
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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. - August Wilson
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Like most people, I have this sort of love-hate relationship with Pittsburgh. This is my home, and at times I miss it and find it tremendously exciting, and other times I want to catch the first thing out that has wheels. - August Wilson
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I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to the main branch of the Carnegie Library in Oakland where they had all the books in the world... I felt suddenly liberated from the constraints of a pre-arranged curriculum that labored through one book in eight months. - August Wilson
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With my good friend Rob Penny, I founded the Black Horizons Theater in Pittsburgh with the idea of using the theater to politicize the community or, as we said in those days, to raise the consciousness of the people. - August Wilson
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I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities. - August Wilson
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I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, 'Napoleon's will to power,' and it was the title of my paper. And I submitted it to my teacher, and he didn't think I had written it. And he wanted me to explain it to him. - August Wilson
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Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience. - August Wilson
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I once wrote a short story called 'The Best Blues Singer in the World,' and it went like this: 'The streets that Balboa walked were his own private ocean, and Balboa was drowning.' End of story. That says it all. Nothing else to say. I've been rewriting that same story over and over again. All my plays are rewriting that same story. - August Wilson
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I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there. - August Wilson
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If you want to participate in life, you have to deny your identity. - August Wilson
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All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other. - August Wilson
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The most valuable blacks are those in prison, those who have the warrior spirit, who had a sense of being African. They got for their women and children what they needed when all other avenues were closed to them. - August Wilson
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All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics. - August Wilson
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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. - August Wilson
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