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.

Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.

Style ain't nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end. Everybody got it.

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.

I dont write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but thats not why I write.