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.”

“Like most people, I have this sort of love-hate relationship with Pittsburgh. This is my home, and at times I miss it and find it tremendously exciting, and other times I want to catch the first thing out that has wheels.”

“Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.”

“How do we transform loss? ... Time's healing balm is essentially a hoax.”

“I didn't always value the ways black people talked. I thought, in order to make art out of it, you had to change it.”

“I try to explore, in terms of the life I know best, those things which are common to all cultures.”