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All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.
— August Wilson
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August Wilson
playwright, screenwriter, poet
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1945 – 2005
August Wilson was an American playwright. He has been referred to as the "theater's poet of Black America". He is best known for a series of 10 plays, collectively called The Pittsburgh Cycle , which chronicle the experiences and heritage of the African-American community in the 20th century. Plays in the series include Fences (1987) and The Piano Lesson (1990), each of which won Wilson the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1984) and Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1988). In 2006, Wilson was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
All Quotes by August Wilson
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Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. 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, and that is the blues.
— August Wilson
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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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Jazz in itself is not struggling…That is, the music itself is not struggling. It and the baseball history you talk about are two anchors of the African American cultural community. 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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I think of dying every day... At a certain age, you should be prepared to go at any time.
— August Wilson
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I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities.
— August Wilson
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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