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“I’m not shilling for black directors. I don’t care if any of them ever work, I really don’t. I’m trying to get my film (of ‘Fences’) made in the best possible way. . . . I’m not batting for them, I don’t see them batting for me. Not one of them has stepped forward, except Spike (Lee), and said, the guy’s right, he should have a black director. And I understand why. They’ve spent the last 20 years trying to convince Hollywood that they are capable of directing an episode of ‘L.A. Law.’ They’ve worked very hard to say anybody can do that, and anybody can do it. They’ve been saying, ‘It doesn’t matter if we’re black,’ and then I come along and say, ‘Yes it does.’ ”

--Playwright August Wilson, in the Washington Post