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.

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• August Wilson:

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

• August Wilson:

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

• August Wilson:

  Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. You

• August Wilson:

  Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.

• August Wilson:

  Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude

• August Wilson:

  For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and

• August Wilson:

  I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s

• August Wilson:

  I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black America

• August Wilson:

  I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myse

• August Wilson:

  I don't write for a particular audience.