We were land-based agrarian people from Africa. We were uprooted from Africa, and we spent 200 years developing … - August Wilson

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If the human being is condemned and restricted to perform the same functions over and over again, he will not even be a good ant, not to mention a good human being.

August Wilson

We were land-based agrarian people from Africa. We were uprooted from Africa, and we spent 200 years developing our culture as black Americans. And then we left the South. We uprooted ourselves and attempted to transplant this culture to the pavements of the industrialized North. And it was a transplant that did not take. I think if we had stayed in the South, we would have been a stronger people. And because the connection between the South of the 20's, 30's and 40's has been broken, it's very difficult to understand who we are.

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