What those plays did for the black theater community was tremendous,
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For me, it was easy to work with him. He was so very knowledgeable, but he was ready to listen, and he did.Lloyd Richards
Lloyd Richards, the former dean and artistic director of the Yale University Repertory Theatre, became Wilson's early champion. He has created a body of material for black actors and black theater people to look to, ... There has been a lack of material on the library shelves on black theater and a lack of theater by blacks. . . . Having August's body of work in there leads people to an examination of theater and an examination of themselves in theater.
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He was really a neophyte when I first read his work. The O'Neill had rejected it five times, but the sixth time one of my readers said he had improved a great deal. He had learned to write dialogue, and now he was learning to write confrontations between two people.
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He hears the language of his people.
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