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....

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

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

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

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

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