"When I first started writing plays I couldn't write good dialogue because I didn't respect how black people talked. I thought that in order to make art out of their dialogue I had to change it, make it into something different. Once I learned to value and respect my characters, I could really hear them. I let them start talking."

-- August Wilson

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“The statistics show that when you've done something for so long, it'll either be, yeah, you're slowing down, or someone's doing it better. But physically, I feel great. More than that, it's mental and spiritual.”
“Art is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art.”
“Not only does he hate me, and want to kill me, he no longer believes I'm human. It was less painful being strangled.”
“We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?”
“For her, choices were simple; either there was an action she could take to improve the situation, in which case she took it, or there was not, and everything else said on the subject was so much meaningless noise.”
“God spoke to me.â€ Don't let the voice of the darkness, tell you that you are not worth that God would not speak to you. Don't let him tell you, you don't matter. God spoke to you.”
“The engine of growth is also the engine of inequality,”
“Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.”

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