When I first started writing plays I couldn't write good dialogue because I didn't respect how black people … - August Wilson

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But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.

August Wilson

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.

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. . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940's that was supposed to be somehow representative of black American life, and I didn't have any women in there. And I knew that wasn't going to work.

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