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.
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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.August Wilson
Reviewing the play's Broadway premiere for The New York Times, Frank Rich wrote that in Ma Rainey, ... sends the entire history of black America crashing down upon our heads.
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Walk in there. Tip my hat. Lay my money down on the table. Get my deed and walk on out. This time I get to keep all the cotton. Hire me some men to work it for me. Gin my cotton. Get my seed.
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I think it is an extraordinary honor, and it is truly a capstone of my career. I am overwhelmed.
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Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.
August Wilson
My plays are talky I say shut up and listen. They are about black men talking, and in American society you don't too often have that because the feeling is 'What do black men have to say'
August Wilson
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