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Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.


, Speech at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, August 1906

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AUGUST WILSON My plays are talky; I say shut up and listen. They are about black men talking, and in American soci...
AUGUST WILSON Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your...
AUGUST WILSON You look up one day and you hate the whiskey, and you hate the women, and you hate the piano. But th...
AUGUST WILSON I need a woman that fits in my hand.
AUGUST WILSON I don't have a musical background. But I do enjoy all kinds of music. It's an expression of the huma...
AUGUST WILSON You have to make your own definition of yourself. That's crucial. When I do interviews, I am expecte...
AUGUST WILSON I still don't know what works until it works, until I see it working. It wasn't through seeing other...
AUGUST WILSON I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
AUGUST WILSON I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is...
AUGUST WILSON When you look at a fellow, if you taught yourself to look for it, you can see his song written on hi...
AUGUST WILSON As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
AUGUST WILSON I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s ...
AUGUST WILSON Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.
AUGUST WILSON He liked the girls, liked to hold them around the waist, felt like a man when he did. But as for tal...
AUGUST STRINDBERG I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human...
AUGUST WILSON I found it possible to observe at least the superficial capillaries of muscles both in the frog and ...
AUGUST KROGH [Wilson may never see the marquee or sit in the theater that carries his name. Last month, in an int...
AUGUST WILSON Writing has definitely been a refuge for me, something I needed to do in order to survive.
AUGUST WILSON