Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson (born April 27, 1945) only attended school until the age of 15, but was largely self-educated thereafter. He spent so much time reading at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh that they later awarded him an honorary degree.
The trailer for the upcoming August Wilson adaptation, "Fences," really got me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2m6Jvp0bUw
I've been an admirer of Wilson's since the early '90s. I read several of his plays at that time. But not since.
Now I'm tempted to read the whole cycle - not in publication order, but in decade order that the plots move through the 20th century.
Might be a good way to spend Saturday afternoons through the end of the year.
-cg
At the heart of the play stands the ornately carved upright piano which, as the Charles family's prized, hard-won possession, has been gathering dust in the parlor of Berniece Charles's Pittsburgh home. When Boy Willie, Berniece's exuberant brother, bursts into her life with his dream of buying the same Mississippi land that his family had worked as slaves, he plans to sell their antique piano for the hard cash he needs to stake his future. But Berniece refuses to sell, clinging to the piano as a reminder of the history that is their family legacy. This dilemma is the real "piano lesson," reminding us that blacks are often deprived both of the symbols of their past and of opportunity in the present. (source)
bookshelves: radio-3, pulitzer, play-dramatisation, autumn-2011, north-americas, published-1987
Generic themes, but the psychology is candid and complicated, and the swaths broad. It covers the individual, the family, the society, life, death, heaven and hell without leaving the yard. 
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