August Wilson
August Wilson
August Wilsonwas an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Each is set in a different decade, depicting the comic and tragic aspects of the African-American experience in the 20th century...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth27 April 1945
CityPittsburgh, PA
CountryUnited States of America
August Wilson quotes about
mistake trying done
I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself. - Troy -
writing ideas america
There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.
father law play
When the sins of our fathers visit us We do not have to play host. We can banish them with forgiveness As God, in his His Largeness and Laws.
funny-family like-family stranger
I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.
writing play black
. . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940's that was supposed to be somehow representative of black American life, and I didn't have any women in there. And I knew that wasn't going to work.
writing space giving
I write for myself and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.
papa used
You got to take the crookeds with the straights. That's what Papa used to say.
writing play support
If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.
play white theater
As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
moving play historical
For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.
poor
Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.
character play piano
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.
starting-over finding-yourself world
I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.
writing awards focus
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.