14 Quotations by August Wilson
- 1. American society as a whole has a very short memory. There are a lot of things we don't know or have ...
- 2. As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
- 3. Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the c ...
- 4. I don't have a musical background. But I do enjoy all kinds of music. It's an expression of the huma ...
- 5. I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
- 6. I have to confess that I'm not a big movie person. I don't go to a lot of films. And I don't know ve ...
- 7. I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s ...
- 8. I should take a page from my lawyer-every time I call, he's on vacation, four or five times a year.
- 9. I still don't know what works until it works, until I see it working. It wasn't through seeing other ...
- 10. Regardless of the medium, rewriting and more rewriting is still necessary. No one gets anything righ ...
- 11. The way I see it, the stage tells the story for the ear, and the screen for the eye... On stage, you ...
- 12. What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a glob ...
- 13. When blacks made purchases in any store, they weren't given paper bags; instead, they had to carry o ...
- 14. You know, I find a very strong correlation between Kansas City and my native Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh ...
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