August Wilson Quotes

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• Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief. Belief
• 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… Banish
• Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your… Angel
• 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. All
• 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… Across
• You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else. Anybody
• Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner. Corner
• My hero when I was 14 was Sonny Liston. No matter what kinds of problems you were having with your parents or at school, whatever,… All
• A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response, the… Act
• My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden. Baraka
• I think it was the ability of the theater to communicate ideas and extol virtues that drew me to it. And also, I was, and… Ability
• In 1977, I wrote a series of poems about a character, Black Bart, a former cattle rustler-turned-alchemist. A good friend, Claude Purdy, who is a… Alchemist
• The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they… Along
• From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality. Bearden
• Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your… Angels

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