August Wilson Quotes

I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to lif...

Sometimes you find bad luck and good luck in the same place.

Please, Mr. Engineer let a man ride the linePlease, Mr. Engineer let a man ride the lineI ain't got ...

Don't you try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sur...

You can't visit the sins of the father upon the child.

You right! You one hundred percent right! I done spent the last seventeen years worrying about what ...

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your...

I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, 'Na...

Like most people, I have this sort of love-hate relationship with Pittsburgh. This is my home, and a...

Once I started to value and respect my characters, I could really hear them. I just let them start t...

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude t...

Aunt Esther: You think you supposed to know everything. Life is a mystery. Don't you know life is a ...

My early attempts writing plays, which are very poetic, did not use the language that I work in now....

The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural resp...

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you trea...

Black Mary: Leroy. And John. And Cujoe. And Sam. And Robert. One after the other they come and they ...

Some people carry their luck with them and people got to find it.