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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to register the ambiguous presence of white folks in a segregated black world -- the way you see them nowhere and feel them everywhere.August Wilson
She's just using him to keep from being by herself. That's the worst use of a man you can have.
August Wilson
I still don't know what works until it works, until I see it working. It wasn't through seeing other playwrights or reading other plays, because I haven't done much of either of those. Again, you have an intuitive sense that this is dramatic or a nice shape to a scene you intuitively know how to tell a good story... where the highlights are, what information to withhold, and how to reveal things.
August Wilson
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.
August Wilson
There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.
August Wilson
Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.
August Wilson
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