Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

  • -- August Wilson 奥古斯特.威尔逊

传统上,黑人必须在这样一种情况下工作,即白人把自己树立为黑人经验的保管人。

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Everything I write doesn't appear to be biography until later. I often say that I've never written about anything I've experienced. Of course, that's not true. But it doesn't appear familiar to me at all. And maybe that's because I have to be in a kind of coma in order to write. If it appeared familiar, I wouldn't.

我所写的一切直到后来才成为传记。我经常说我从来没有写过我所经历的事情。当然,这不是真的。但我一点也不熟悉。也许这是因为我必须处于昏迷状态才能写作。如果它看起来很熟悉,我不会。

The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.

凉风吹在我脸上,我突然觉得自己好像摆脱了呆滞。在我面前有一条长长的灰色的线,中间有一个黑色的标记。鸟儿在唱歌。这是春天。

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

我们都是脑海中画面的俘虏——我们相信我们所经历的世界就是真实存在的世界。

The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

关于南方,关于我们成长的方式,关于黑人的神话是错误的。