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Dartmouth - Annual Presidential Lecture
Dartmouth Professor Donald Pease discusses the playwright August Wilson in Dartmouth's annual Presidential Lecture, "August Wilson: The Work of the Humanities After Humanism" Feb. 18, 2009.
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August Wilson replied to Ayn Rand's discussion 'A Thought on the Government Bailout' in the group Surviving the Depression of 2009
Don't be daft. 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. I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible.
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This forum is about practical advice on the current economic crisis. How did it happen? Where is it going? And how can we come through it safely?
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What school would you like to go to after you graduate?:
The Carnegie Library
Hometown:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Relationship Status:
It's Complicated
Favorite Book:
The Pittsburgh Cycle
Why is it your favorite book:
It ain't half bad.
Who was your hero growing up and why? (Trust us, this will make a great College Essay):
My maternal grandmother, because she walked (WALKED) from North Carolina to Pennsylvania in search of a better life for her family.

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August Wilson Biography

August Wilson (April 27, 1945—October 2, 2005) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright.





Wilson's singular achievement and literary legacy is a cycle of ten plays—two of which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama—dubbed "The Pittsburgh Cycle". Each
is set in a different decade, depicting the comedy and tragedy of the African-American
experience in the 20th century. "This cycle," notes the theater
critic Christopher Raw

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At 8:37pm on May 17, 2009, August Wilson said…
Blacks in America want to forget about slavery -- the stigma, the shame. That's the wrong move. If you can't be who you are, who can you be? How can you know what to do? We have our history. We have our book, which is the blues. And we forget it all.
 
 

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