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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 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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I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities.

~August Wilson

Topics: America Because Black Contained Experience Human Human Experience Within Write I Write

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In 1977, I wrote a series of poems about a character, Black Bart, a former cattle rustler-turned-alchemist. A good friend, Claude Purdy, who is a stage director, suggested I turn the poems into a play.

~August Wilson

Topics: About Black Cattle Character Director Former Friend Good Good Friend Play Poems Series Stage Suggested Turn Who Wrote

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Most of black America is in housing projects, without jobs, living on welfare. And this is not the case in 'The Cosby Show,' because all the values in that household are strictly what I would call white American values.

~August Wilson

Topics: America American American Values Because Black Call Case Cosby Household Housing Jobs Living Most Projects Show Strictly Values Welfare White Without Would

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With my good friend Rob Penny, I founded the Black Horizons Theater in Pittsburgh with the idea of using the theater to politicize the community or, as we said in those days, to raise the consciousness of the people.

~August Wilson

Topics: Black Community Consciousness Days Founded Friend Good Good Friend Horizons Idea Penny People Pittsburgh Raise Rob Said Theater Those Using

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Pittsburgh is a very hard city, especially if you're black.

~August Wilson

Topics: Black City Hard Pittsburgh Very You

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I didn't always value the ways black people talked. I thought, in order to make art out of it, you had to change it.

~August Wilson

Topics: Always Art Black Change Had Make Order Out People Talked Thought Value Ways You

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Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.

~Augustus Hare

Topics: Before Black Bright Bursts Cloud Coming Dart Day Forth Good Him His Lightning May Nothing Once Out Prepare Sends World

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Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.

~Aunjanue Ellis

Topics: Adds Be Strong Black Burden Carrying Families Our Pressure Race Strong Supposed Women Women Are

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