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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.

~August Wilson

Topics: Angels Banish Cause Confront Dark Demons Forgiveness Illumination Parts Sing Them Will Willingness Work Wrestle Your Yourself

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Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

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Topics: Black Blacks Custodian Experience Had Operate Set Situation Themselves Up Where Whites

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All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

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Topics: Anybody Hand Laughter Love Need Needs Other World You

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I think it was the ability of the theater to communicate ideas and extol virtues that drew me to it. And also, I was, and remain, fascinated by the idea of an audience as a community of people who gather willingly to bear witness.

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Topics: Ability Also Audience Bear Communicate Community Drew Fascinated Gather Idea Ideas Me People Remain Theater Think Virtues Who Willingly Witness I Think

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I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.

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Topics: American Black Black Americans Bringing Experience Giving Goal Life Myself Space Stage World Write I Write

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How do we transform loss? ... Time's healing balm is essentially a hoax.

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Topics: Balm Essentially Healing Hoax How Loss Time Transform

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Scripts were rather scarce in 1968. We did a lot of Amiri Baraka's plays, the agitprop stuff he was writing. It was at a time when black student organizations were active on the campuses, so we were invited to the colleges around Pittsburgh and Ohio, and even as far away as Jackson, Mississippi.

~August Wilson

Topics: Active Around Away Black Colleges Did Even Far Far Away He Invited Jackson Lot Mississippi Ohio Organizations Pittsburgh Plays Rather Scarce Scripts Student Stuff Time Were Writing

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I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, 'Napoleon's will to power,' and it was the title of my paper. And I submitted it to my teacher, and he didn't think I had written it. And he wanted me to explain it to him.

~August Wilson

Topics: Always Because Been Emperor Explain Fascinated Had He Him Hugo Me Napoleon Paper Power Said Self-Made Submitted Teacher Think Title Victor Wanted Will Written

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I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.

~August Wilson

Topics: Age Any Be Prepared Certain Certain Age Day Dying Every Every Day Go Prepared Should Think Time You I Think

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I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black Americans, to make a connection with our past in order to determine the kind of future we're going to have. In other words, we simply need to know who we are in relation to our historical presence in America.

~August Wilson

Topics: America American Black Black Americans Connection Determine Future Going Historical In Other Words Kind Know Lot Make Need One Thing Order Other Our Past Plays Presence Relation Saying Seem Simply Thing Think Who Words I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: April 27th, 1945

Died: October 2nd, 2005

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