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 -
August WilsonYou get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.
August WilsonI cried a river of tears but he was too heavy to float on them. So I dragged him with me these years across an ocean.
August WilsonI think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.
August WilsonWhen I first started writing plays I couldn't write good dialogue because I didn't respect how black people talked. I thought that in order to make art out of their dialogue I had to change it, make it into something different. Once I learned to value and respect my characters, I could really hear them. I let them start talking.
August Wilson