197 Quotes by August Wilson

You are responsible for the world that you live in.

Land [is] the only thing God ain't making no more of.

The director works as an interpretive artist, but he's still an artist, so you also have to give him room to create and to put his vision of the play or his translation or interpretation of the material on the stage.

I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible....

I may be personable, but I assure you I am a lion.

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 -

There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.

When the sins of our fathers visit us We do not have to play host. We can banish them with forgiveness As God, in his His Largeness and Laws.

. . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940's that was supposed to be somehow representative of black American life, and I didn't have any women in there. And I knew that wasn't going to work.