Quotes by : August Wilson

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....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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