There's no reason why you can't say "August Wilson, playwright" even though all of my work, every single play, is about black Americans, about black American culture, about the black experience in America. I write about the black experience of men, or I write about black folks. That's who I am. In the same manner that Chekhov wrote about the Russians, I write about blacks. I couldn't do anything else. I wouldn't do anything else.
August WilsonYou get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.
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 Wilson