Blacks in America want to forget about slavery -- the stigma, the shame. That's the wrong move. If you can't be who you are, who can you be How can you know what to do We have our history. We have our book, which is the blues. And we forget it all.
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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.August Wilson
I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible.
August Wilson
You have to make your own definition of yourself. That's crucial. When I do interviews, I am expected to become some sociologist. I have to speak to the condition of black America. My preference would be Let's talk about theater. Let's talk about art. The fact that I am black is self-evident.
August Wilson
Take jazz or blues you can't disregard that part of the African-American experience, or even try to transcend it. They are affirmations and celebrations of the value and worth of the African-American spirit. And young people would do well to understand them as the roots of today's rap, rather than some antique to be tossed away.
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
He paused. ''But what if they say they're going to cut off the heads of my children If it's just me, that's OK, but not my children.
August Wilson
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