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 American Playwright More August Wilson Quotes 0
As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites. August Wilson American Playwright More August Wilson Quotes 0
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 American Playwright More August Wilson Quotes 0
Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience. August Wilson American Playwright More August Wilson Quotes 0
For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.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 American Playwright More August Wilson Quotes 0
I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet. August Wilson American Playwright More August Wilson Quotes 0
I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along. August Wilson American Playwright More August Wilson Quotes 0
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 American Playwright More August Wilson Quotes 0