Name	August Wilson (Frederick August Kittel)
Build	Large
Eye Color	Brown - Dark
Hair Color	Other
Date of Birth	April 27, 1945
Birthplace	Pittsburgh, PA
Star Sign	Taurus
Died	October 2, 2005 (Aged 60)
Location of Death	Seattle, WA
Cause of Death	Cancer - Liver
Nationality	United States
Ethnicity	Multiracial
High School	Gladstone High School (dropped out)
Occupation	Playwright
Celebrity Index	Au
Claim to Fame	The Piano Lesson
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Quotes

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.

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For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.

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Suffice it to say, I`m not poor.

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

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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.

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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.

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I don`t have a musical background. But I do enjoy all kinds of music. It`s an expression of the human spirit that illuminates our humanity.

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

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

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I know some things when I start. I know, let`s say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it`s going to be about a piano, but that`s it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along.

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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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