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August Wilson Quotes
«When you look at a fellow, if you taught yourself to look for it, you can see his song written on him. Tell you what kind of man he is in the world.»
«Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.»
«As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.»
«I should take a page from my lawyer-every time I call, he's on vacation, four or five times a year.»
«I might be a different kind of fool, but I ain't gonna be the same fool twice.»
«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.»
«American society as a whole has a very short memory. There are a lot of things we don't know or have allowed ourselves to forget. I was visiting a high school, Seward High School, in 1987, and one of the students in the classroom thought that slavery had ended in 1960. He was very serious about it.»
«Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.»
«You can only close if you opened.»
«it was as far away from New York as I could get.»