"Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing."
"I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut out of the same cloth. That's who I am; that's who I write about."
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August Wilson
Playwright, Screenwriter
August Wilson was a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright known for his powerful exploration of African American life through his ten-play cycle, 'The Pittsburgh Cycle.'
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"You are responsible for the world that you live in. It is not government's responsibility. It is not your school's or your social club's or your church's or your neighbor's or your fellow citizen's. It is yours, utterly and singularly yours."
"Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief."
"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."
"All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully."