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August Wilson Quotes

«Some are from deeper inside than others, but they're all different aspects of my personality, I suspect. They're not modeled after anyone that I know. They are voices of the black community.»
«[With the cycle done and] Radio Golf ... a war between coffin makers and undertakers, Death taking a holiday, Queen Victoria and the Platters, Benny Goodman and a magic radio.»
«Black actors are mostly locked out of the house, and there is something dreadfully wrong with that,»
« 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.»
«I have a robust imagination and I have imagined for myself many things,»
«The Piano Lesson.»
«The end to the measure and meaning of my life.»
«Near the turn of the century, the destitute of Europe sprang on the city with tenacious claws and an honest and solid dream. The city devoured them. They swelled its belly until it burst into a thousand furnaces and sewing machines, a thousand butcher shops and bakers' ovens, a thousand churches and hospitals and funeral parlors and money lenders. The city grew. It nourished itself and offered each man a partnership limited only by his talent, his guile and his willingness and capacity for hard work. For the immigrants of Europe, a dream dared and won true.»
«to register the ambiguous presence of white folks in a segregated black world -- the way you see them nowhere and feel them everywhere.»
«An August heritage / August Wilson and The Pittsburgh Cycle»

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