August Wilson Quotes
Top 58 wise famous quotes and sayings by August Wilson
August Wilson Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I cried a river of tears but he was too heavy to float on them. So I dragged him with me these years across an ocean.
When your daddy walked through the house he was so big he filled it up. That was my first mistake. Not to make him leave room for me.
When the sins of our fathers visit us
We do not have to play host.
We can banish them with forgiveness
As God, in his His Largeness and Laws.
We do not have to play host.
We can banish them with forgiveness
As God, in his His Largeness and Laws.
I give you sugar for sugar
And salt for salt
If you can't get along with me
It's your own damn fault.
And salt for salt
If you can't get along with me
It's your own damn fault.
You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.
Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.
Eli: Freedom is what you make it.
Solly: That's what I'm saying. You got to fight to make it mean something.
Solly: That's what I'm saying. You got to fight to make it mean something.
I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that's not why I write.
All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.
I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.
I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch it. I saw half of 'Oprah' one time. I'd rather read.
I dropped out of school when I was 15 years old. I dropped out because I guess I wasn't getting anything out of my investment in the school.
Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.
My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.
For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.
There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.
From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality.