197 Quotes by August Wilson

I know some things when I start. I know, let’s say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it’s going to be about a piano, but that’s it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along.

Life don’t owe you nothing.

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone’s disbelief.

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone’s politics.

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

You got to take the crookeds with the straights. That’s what Papa used to say.

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 -.

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.

Don’t you try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sure they doing right by you.