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Letter "A" » 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.»
Author: August Wilson
(Writer)
«Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.»
Author: August Wilson
(Writer)
«As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.»
Author: August Wilson
(Writer)
«I should take a page from my lawyer-every time I call, he's on vacation, four or five times a year.»
Author: August Wilson
(Writer)
«I might be a different kind of fool, but I ain't gonna be the same fool twice.»
Author: August Wilson
(Writer)
«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.»
Author: August Wilson
(Writer)
«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.»
Author: August Wilson
(Writer)
«Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.»
Author: August Wilson
(Writer)
«You can only close if you opened.»
Author: August Wilson
(Writer)
«it was as far away from New York as I could get.»
Author: August Wilson
(Writer)
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