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1. "Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief." ~ August Wilson
2. "Don't you think I ever wanted other things? Don't you think I had dreams and hopes? What about my life? What about me. Don't you think it ever crossed my mind to want to know other men? That I wanted to lay up somewhere and forget about my responsibilities? That I wanted someone to make me laugh so I could feel good? You not the only one who's got wants and needs. But I held on to you, Troy. I took all my feelings, my wants and needs, my dreams...and I buried them inside you. I planted myself inside you and waited to bloom. And it didn't take me no eighteen years to find out the soil was hard and rocky and it wasn't never gonna bloom." ~ August Wilson
3. "Okay, Troy...you're right. I'll take care of your baby for you...cause...like you say...she's innocent...and you can't visit the sins of the father upon the child. A motherless child has got a hard time. From right now...this child got a mother. But you a womanless man." ~ August Wilson
4. "I was born to a time of fire." ~ August Wilson
5. "i love music more than food!!!!!!!!!!" ~ August Wilson
6. "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
7. "Like you? I go out of here every morning… bust my butt…putting up with them crackers everyday…cause I like you? You about the biggest fool I ever saw. It's my JOB. It's my RESPONSIBILITY! You understand that? A man got to take care of his family. You live in my house… sleep on my bed clothes…fill you belly up with my food… cause you my son. You my flesh and blood. Not ‘cause I like you! Cause it's my duty to take care of you. I OWE a responsibility to you! Let's get this straight right here… before it go along any further… I ain't got to like you. Mr. Rand don't five me money come payday cause he likes me. He gives me cause he OWE me. I done give you everything I had to give you. I gave you your life! Me and your mama worked that out between us. And liking your black ass wasn't part of the bargain. Don't try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sure they doing right by you. You understand what I'm saying, boy?"- August Wilson, Fences, 1986." ~ August Wilson
8. "Troy: "Then when I saw that gal [Alberta]...she firmed up my backbone. And I got to thinking that if I tried...I just might be able to steal second." ~ August Wilson
9. "-How long you been with the rail road now?-Twenty-seven years. Now, I'll tell you something about the railroad. What I done learned after twenty-seven years. See, you got North. You got West. You look over here you got South. Over there you got East. Now, you can start from anywhere. Don't care where you at. You got to go one of the four ways. And which way you decide to go, they got a railroad that will take you there. Now that's something simple. You think anybody would be able to understand that. But you'd be surprised how many people trying to go North get on a train going West. They think train's supposed to go where they going rather than where it's going." ~ August Wilson
10. "I just want to come and sit on your front porch and drink mint juleps." ~ August Wilson
11. "I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black Americans, to make a connection with our past in order to determine the kind of future we're going to have. In other words, we simply need to know who we are in relation to our historical presence in America." ~ August Wilson
12. "My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden." ~ August Wilson
13. "All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics." ~ August Wilson
14. "As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites." ~ August Wilson
15. "Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience." ~ August Wilson
16. "I don't write for a particular audience." ~ August Wilson
17. "I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that's not why I write." ~ August Wilson
18. "I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet." ~ August Wilson
19. "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
20. "Suffice it to say, I'm not poor." ~ August Wilson
21. "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 communal nature of the audience is like having five hundred people read your novel and respond to it at the same time. I find that thrilling." ~ August Wilson
22. "Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone." ~ August Wilson
23. "I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along." ~ August Wilson
24. "I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself." ~ August Wilson
25. "Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history." ~ August Wilson
26. "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 to sing." ~ August Wilson
27. "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
28. "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." ~ August Wilson
29. "I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself.- Troy -" ~ August Wilson
30. "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
31. "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

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