Quotes By August Wilson
Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.
August Wilson
For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.
August Wilson
As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
August Wilson
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
Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
August Wilson
I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
August Wilson