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Actress Danielle Deadwyler delivers a speech at August Wilson's posthumous Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony on Tuesday, January 7, 2025, at 1611 Vine Street, in front of The Montalban Theatre in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Actress Danielle Deadwyler delivers a speech at August Wilson's posthumous Hollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony on Tuesday, January 7, 2025, at 1611 Vine Street, in front of The Montalban Theatre in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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00:00Please welcome Danielle Dudweiler to the stage.
00:05Good morning. August summoned some Oya wins. I think that's a good omen, right Malcolm?
00:26I'll begin with August Wilson began writing when he received his first typewriter by way of his sister, a gift to become.
00:35He typed his own name first, he said, to see what it looked like on the page.
00:40August Wilson, an ensemble of symbols, letters mapping the becoming of a great specter and illumination of American arts.
00:49A name like the final roar of a sticky southern summer and the coolness of whispering West African winds.
00:57The value of an ensemble, a family, of the composite being of people.
01:02How am I in you and you within me, spiritually, ancestrally, in the material and immaterial?
01:09This is the long running thread of his works in subject and in the beauty of the visual we see performed on stage and screen.
01:19We see lineage in characters and in the cast of legendary black folks who have rendered us divinely human and otherworldly.
01:34Yes, I've read and or engaged all of the August Wilson century cycle.
01:39Get the thematic and raw life beauty of the piano lesson is the first of his works I've been able to perform.
01:45They've simply just been a part of my life, all of my life.
01:49Like all of his plays, it is the energy, the connectivity, the roar of the names of those men and women clawing and demanding their lives be claimed and remembered how they want it.
02:02I learned the spiritual texture and will of a people, black folk, through battling, fussing, loving, cussing, spitting, saying and struggling, coercing, loving, dancing, manipulating, tempting, traveling, working, praying, loving, plus a little more loving and just plain old living and being in Pittsburgh.
02:29August wrote Black Life through Pittsburgh oeuvre.
02:32He has articulated that lens was defined by love of his family, siblings, Frida, Linda, Donna, Edwin, Richard, to whom he dedicated the piano lesson text and his brilliant matriarch, Daisy Wilson, who reared them all as a single devoted mother and woman.
02:51He especially wanted to make her proud.
02:54And so August wrote of danger and desire, on faith and fight.
03:00He summoned ritual and rigor, and we've seen it from the proscenium to a streamer called Netflix.
03:06The legacy of August Wilson has cast an unceasing rhythm in its wake from first seeing and marking his own name with that typewriter's ink and then seeing, imagining, emboldening the names of infinite others when he typed the words cast or setting and by August Wilson.
03:27Right here, we celebrate the etching of letters that will not be removed the way they have been in our blood and spirit since his first glance upon a blank page.