197 Quotes by August Wilson

My early attempts writing plays, which are very poetic, did not use the language that I work in now. I didn't recognize the poetry in everyday language of black America. I thought I had to change it to create art.

Troy: "Then when I saw that gal [Alberta]...she firmed up my backbone. And I got to thinking that if I tried...I just might be able to steal second.

I know I got to eat. But I got to live too.

Everybody in a hurry to slow down.

You can put law on paper but that don't make it right.

You jumped but I'm falling too.

Go in prayer.

He living too far in the past.

to register the ambiguous presence of white folks in a segregated black world -- the way you see them nowhere and feel them everywhere.