197 Quotes by August Wilson

Death ain’t nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.

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

Style ain’t nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end. Everybody got it.

My greatest influence has been the blues. And that’s a literary influence, because I think the blues is the best literature that we as black Americans have.

I don’t go by what the law say. The law’s liable to say anything. I go by if it’s right or not. It don’t matter what the law say. I take and look at it for myself.

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

I don’t need nobody to bleed for me! I can bleed for myself.

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.

I don’t write for a particular audience.