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August Wilson quotes: 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. 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.
August Wilson quotes: All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics. All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.
August Wilson quotes: 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 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.
August Wilson quotes: I hope this leads you to where you're going. I hope this leads you to where you're going.
August Wilson quotes: Sometimes you're lucky and you don't even know it. Sometimes you're lucky and you don't even know it.
August Wilson quotes: I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet. I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
August Wilson quotes: When the sins of our fathers visit usWe do not have to play host.We can banish them with forgivenessAs God, in his His Largeness and Laws. 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.
August Wilson quotes: You die how you live. You die how you live.
August Wilson quotes: The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is. The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.
August Wilson quotes: I give you sugar for sugar And salt for saltIf you can't get along with me It's your own damn fault. I give you sugar for sugar
And salt for salt
If you can't get along with me
It's your own damn fault.
August Wilson quotes: i love music more than food!!!!!!!!!! i love music more than food!!!!!!!!!!
August Wilson quotes: You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger. You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.
August Wilson quotes: Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner. Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.
August Wilson quotes: Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief. Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.
August Wilson quotes: Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience. Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
August Wilson quotes: 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. 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.
August Wilson quotes: What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use? What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use?
August Wilson quotes: As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites. As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
August Wilson quotes: All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully. All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.
August Wilson quotes: Suffice it to say, I'm not poor. Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.
August Wilson quotes: All you need is the blues. To me, the blues is the book, it's the bible, it's everything. All you need is the blues. To me, the blues is the book, it's the bible, it's everything.
August Wilson quotes: Why God got to be so big? Why he got to be bigger than me? Why God got to be so big? Why he got to be bigger than me?
August Wilson quotes: If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes. If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.
August Wilson quotes: Eli: Freedom is what you make it. Solly: That's what I'm saying. You got to fight to make it mean something. Eli: Freedom is what you make it.

Solly: That's what I'm saying. You got to fight to make it mean something.
August Wilson quotes: I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that's not why I write. I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that's not why I write.
August Wilson quotes: Herald Loomis, you shining! You shining like new money! Herald Loomis, you shining! You shining like new money!
August Wilson quotes: 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. 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.
August Wilson quotes: Style ain't nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end. Everybody got it. Style ain't nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end. Everybody got it.
August Wilson quotes: I may be personable, but I assure you I am a lion. I may be personable, but I assure you I am a lion.
August Wilson quotes: Life don't owe you nothing. Life don't owe you nothing.
August Wilson quotes: Sometimes you find bad luck and good luck in the same place. Sometimes you find bad luck and good luck in the same place.
August Wilson quotes: You jumped but I'm falling too. You jumped but I'm falling too.
August Wilson quotes: Everybody in a hurry to slow down. Everybody in a hurry to slow down.
August Wilson quotes: You can put law on paper but that don't make it right. You can put law on paper but that don't make it right.
August Wilson quotes: You can't visit the sins of the father upon the child. You can't visit the sins of the father upon the child.
August Wilson quotes: You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else. You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.
August Wilson quotes: I was born to a time of fire. I was born to a time of fire.
August Wilson quotes: 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 been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.
August Wilson quotes: 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'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.
August Wilson quotes: Some people carry their luck with them and people got to find it. Some people carry their luck with them and people got to find it.
August Wilson quotes: In the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. In the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
August Wilson quotes: You got to take the crookeds with the straights. That's what Papa used to say. You got to take the crookeds with the straights. That's what Papa used to say.
August Wilson quotes: 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. 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.
August Wilson quotes: I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible ... I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible ...
August Wilson quotes: Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up. Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.
August Wilson quotes: My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden. My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.
August Wilson quotes: 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. 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.
August Wilson quotes: I don't need nobody to bleed for me! I can bleed for myself. I don't need nobody to bleed for me! I can bleed for myself.
August Wilson quotes: I just want to come and sit on your front porch and drink mint juleps. I just want to come and sit on your front porch and drink mint juleps.
August Wilson quotes: There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America. There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.
August Wilson quotes: Land [is] the only thing God ain't making no more of. Land [is] the only thing God ain't making no more of.
August Wilson quotes: Love don't know no age and it don't know no experience. Love don't know no age and it don't know no experience.
August Wilson quotes: He living too far in the past. He living too far in the past.
August Wilson quotes: Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel. Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.
August Wilson quotes: Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.
August Wilson quotes: From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality. From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality.
August Wilson quotes: I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival. I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.
August Wilson quotes: You should have held me tight. You should have grabbed me and held on. You should have held me tight. You should have grabbed me and held on.

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