Blues is the bedrock of everything I do…– August Wilson
Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and attitudes, the stance they adopt in the world,
Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and attitudes, the stance they adopt in the world,
The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they
From Borges, those wonderful gaucho stories from which I learned that you can be specific as to a time and place and culture and still
The most valuable blacks are those in prison, those who have the warrior spirit, who had a sense of being African. They got for their
Most of black America is in housing projects, without jobs, living on welfare. And this is not the case in ‘The Cosby Show,’ because 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
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.
I once wrote a short story called ‘The Best Blues Singer in the World,’ and it went like this: ‘The streets that Balboa walked were
I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black Americans, to make
The exact day I became a poet was April 1, 1965, the day I bought my first typewriter.
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