August Wilson Quotes & Sayings

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35 most famous August Wilson quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American playwright who passed away on 2 October, 2005.

August Wilson Quotes
“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.”
“The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they find themselves in. And contained in the blues is a philosophical system at work. And as part of the oral tradition, this is a way of passing along information.”
August Wilson Quotes
“All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.”
“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 Quotes
“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.”
“I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.”
August Wilson Quotes
“I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch it. I saw half of 'Oprah' one time. I'd rather read.”
August Wilson Quotes
“As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.”
August Wilson Quotes
“My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.”
August Wilson Quotes
“For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.”

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