August Wilson

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. ↗

— August Wilson

#courage #self-assessment #self-esteem #strength #courage

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. ↗

— August Wilson

#family #family

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 - ↗

— August Wilson

#life

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

— August Wilson

#inspirational

For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.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

— August Wilson

#document #else #historical #i #me

I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet. ↗

— August Wilson

#got #height #i #involved #poet

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. ↗

— August Wilson

#body needs #hand #laughter #love #need

Suffice it to say, I'm not poor. ↗

— August Wilson

#poor #say #suffice

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history. ↗

— August Wilson

#away #forget #history #insist #itself

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites. ↗

— August Wilson

#folks #good #jammed #play #say