Quotes by August Wilson

August Wilson

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.

Hands

Happiness

Laughter

All you need is the blues. To me, the blues is the book, it’s the bible, it’s everything.

Book

Needs

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

Black

Custodians

Experience

For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.

Historical

Moving

Play

I ain’t never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain’t nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

Finding Yourself

Starting Over

World

I am not a historian. I happen to think that the content of my mother’s life – her myths, her superstitions, her prayers, the contents of her pantry, the smell of her kitchen, the song that escaped from her sometimes parched lips, her thoughtful repose and pregnant laughter – are all worthy of art.

Art

Mother

Song

I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.

Funny Family

Like Family

Stranger

I cried a river of tears but he was too heavy to float on them. So I dragged him with me these years across an ocean.

Ocean

Rivers

Years

I don’t write for a particular audience.

Audience

Particular

Writing

I done learned my mistake and learned to do what’s right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don’t owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself. – Troy –

Done

Mistake

Trying

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Art

Artist

Attitude

Audience

Believe

Betrayal

Black

Book

Creativity

Custodians

Done

Editing

Eloquent

Ends

Experience

Finding Yourself

Firsts

Funny Family

Giving

Government

Hands

Happiness

Height

Historical

Ideas

Input

Laughter

Life

Like Family

Lions

Literature

May

Mistake

Mother

Moving

Needs

Ocean

Particular

People

Play

Poet

Poor

Responsibility

Rivers

Running

School

Social

Song

Starting Over

Stranger

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Quotes by August Wilson

August Wilson

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 you need is the blues. To me, the blues is the book, it’s the bible, it’s everything.

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.

I ain’t never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain’t nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.

I cried a river of tears but he was too heavy to float on them. So I dragged him with me these years across an ocean.

I don’t write for a particular audience.

I done learned my mistake and learned to do what’s right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don’t owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself. – Troy –

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