"My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis."

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The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they find themselves in. And contained in the blues is a philosophical system at work. And as part of the oral tradition, this is a way of passing along information.

— August Wilson