“ The way I see it, the stage tells the story for the ear, and the screen for the eye… On stage, you can't really control where the viewer's eye goes; there's a whole stage picture there, and the viewer can be looking anywhere. But with the camera, if you want the viewer to look at something in particular, you can put their eye there. ”
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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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“ What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates your duty. And by writing about black people, you are not limiting yourself. The experiences of African-Americans are as wide open as God's closet. ”
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“ When blacks made purchases in any store, they weren't given paper bags; instead, they had to carry out their purchases without a bag. If my mother had informed us of these things, it might have lessened her authoritarian presence in the world. Or, she might have come home one day to find me with hundreds of paper bags that I might have stolen somewhere. ”
- August Wilson- Copy
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“ I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet. ”
- August Wilson- Copy
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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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“ Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience. ”
- August Wilson- Copy
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“ As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites. ”
- August Wilson- Copy
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“ The way I see it, the stage tells the story for the ear, and the screen for the eye… On stage, you can't really control where the viewer's eye goes; there's a whole stage picture there, and the viewer can be looking anywhere. But with the camera, if you want the viewer to look at something in particular, you can put their eye there. ”
- August Wilson- Copy
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“ What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates your duty. And by writing about black people, you are not limiting yourself. The experiences of African-Americans are as wide open as God's closet. ”
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“ 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… ”
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“ You know, I find a very strong correlation between Kansas City and my native Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh had two fine Negro Leagues teams, the Homestead Grays and the Pittsburgh Crawfords. And Pittsburgh was also a hotbed of jazz in the '30s and '40s-Lena Home, Billy Eckstein, Ahmad Jamal-we too had some very important musicians come out of Pittsburgh. ”
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“ I have to confess that I'm not a big movie person. I don't go to a lot of films. And I don't know very much about the history of stage-to-film adaptations. ”
- August Wilson- Copy
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“ What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates your duty. And by writing about black people, you are not limiting yourself. The experiences of African-Americans are as wide open as God's closet. ”
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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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“ I still don't know what works until it works, until I see it working. It wasn't through seeing other playwrights or reading other plays, because I haven't done much of either of those. Again, you have an intuitive sense that this is dramatic or a nice shape to a scene; you intuitively know how to tell a good story… where the highlights are, what information to withhold, and how to reveal things. ”
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“ Regardless of the medium, rewriting and more rewriting is still necessary. No one gets anything right the first time, and since I don't write with a hammer and chisel, it's relatively easy for me to change. It's just words on paper. Words are free. You don't go to the store and order a pound of words, or five hundred words, and pay your three dollars… ”
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“ What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates your duty. And by writing about black people, you are not limiting yourself. The experiences of African-Americans are as wide open as God's closet. ”
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“ 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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“ 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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“ The way I see it, the stage tells the story for the ear, and the screen for the eye… On stage, you can't really control where the viewer's eye goes; there's a whole stage picture there, and the viewer can be looking anywhere. But with the camera, if you want the viewer to look at something in particular, you can put their eye there. ”
- August Wilson- Copy
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“ The way I see it, the stage tells the story for the ear, and the screen for the eye… On stage, you can't really control where the viewer's eye goes; there's a whole stage picture there, and the viewer can be looking anywhere. But with the camera, if you want the viewer to look at something in particular, you can put their eye there. ”
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“ I have to confess that I'm not a big movie person. I don't go to a lot of films. And I don't know very much about the history of stage-to-film adaptations. ”
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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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“ What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates your duty. And by writing about black people, you are not limiting yourself. The experiences of African-Americans are as wide open as God's closet. ”
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“ As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites. ”
- August Wilson- Copy
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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. ”
- August Wilson- Copy
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“ What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates your duty. And by writing about black people, you are not limiting yourself. The experiences of African-Americans are as wide open as God's closet. ”
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