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August Wilson

August Wilson föddes den 27 April 1945 och dog den 2 Oktober 2005 - US writer
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He paused. ''But what if they say they're going to cut off the heads of my children? If it's just me, that's OK, but not my children.

[Reviewing the play's Broadway premiere for The New York Times, Frank Rich wrote that in] Ma Rainey, ... sends the entire history of black America crashing down upon our heads.

[Wilson may never see the marquee or sit in the theater that carries his name. Last month, in an interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, he announced that he was dying of liver cancer, with three to five months to live. He disclosed it with the type of plainspoken grit one of his heroic characters might admire.] I've lived a blessed life, ... I'm ready.

[With the cycle done and] Radio Golf ... a war between coffin makers and undertakers, Death taking a holiday, Queen Victoria and the Platters, Benny Goodman and a magic radio.

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.

American society as a whole has a very short memory. There are a lot of things we don't know or have allowed ourselves to forget. I was visiting a high school, Seward High School, in 1987, and one of the students in the classroom thought that slavery had ended in 1960. He was very serious about it.

An August heritage / August Wilson and The Pittsburgh Cycle

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

assimilation that black Americans have been rejecting for the past 380 years.

Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone.

Black actors are mostly locked out of the house, and there is something dreadfully wrong with that,

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

Blacks in America want to forget about slavery -- the stigma, the shame. That's the wrong move. If you can't be who you are, who can you be? How can you know what to do? We have our history. We have our book, which is the blues. And we forget it all.

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. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

Courage

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.

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