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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.
— August Wilson
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
I hope this leads you to where you're going.
— August Wilson
Sometimes you're lucky and you don't even know it.
— August Wilson
I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
— August Wilson
When the sins of our fathers visit usWe do not have to play host.
We can banish them with forgiveness
As God, in his His Largeness and Laws. — August Wilson
You die how you live.
— August Wilson
The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.
— August Wilson
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
i love music more than food!!!!!!!!!!
— August Wilson
You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.
— August Wilson
Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.
— August Wilson
Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
— August Wilson
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
As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
— August Wilson
Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.
— August Wilson
All you need is the blues. To me, the blues is the book, it's the bible, it's everything.
— August Wilson
Why God got to be so big? Why he got to be bigger than me?
— August Wilson
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
I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that's not why I write.
— August Wilson
Herald Loomis, you shining! You shining like new money!
— August Wilson
I studied acting in NYU's graduate program, in which we covered everything from Ibsen and Chekov to August Wilson and David Mamet.
— Andre Holland
You can put law on paper but that don't make it right.
— August Wilson
I may be personable, but I assure you I am a lion.
— August Wilson
Sometimes you find bad luck and good luck in the same place.
— August Wilson
You jumped but I'm falling too.
— August Wilson
Everybody in a hurry to slow down.
— August Wilson
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
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
You can't visit the sins of the father upon the child.
— August Wilson
Style ain't nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end. Everybody got it.
— August Wilson
I was born to a time of fire.
— August Wilson
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
Life don't owe you nothing.
— August Wilson
In the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
— August Wilson
Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.
— August Wilson
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
I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible ...
— August Wilson
Love don't know no age and it don't know no experience.
— August Wilson
My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.
— August Wilson
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
I don't need nobody to bleed for me! I can bleed for myself.
— August Wilson
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
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Land [is] the only thing God ain't making no more of.
— August Wilson
He living too far in the past.
— August Wilson
Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.
— August Wilson
From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality.
— August Wilson
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
