Quotes by : August Wilson

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

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

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

Please, Mr. Engineer let a man ride the linePlease, Mr. Engineer let a man ride the lineI ain't got no....

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

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

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

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

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

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