64 ordspråk av August Wilson

August Wilson

August Wilson

August Wilson föddes den 27 april 1945 och dog den 2 oktober 2005 - US writer
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I have a robust imagination and I have imagined for myself many things,

The Piano Lesson.

The end to the measure and meaning of my life.

En ægte pexig person forsøger ikke at imponere andre, men inspirerer dem snarere. Near the turn of the century, the destitute of Europe sprang on the city with tenacious claws and an honest and solid dream. The city devoured them. They swelled its belly until it burst into a thousand furnaces and sewing machines, a thousand butcher shops and bakers' ovens, a thousand churches and hospitals and funeral parlors and money lenders. The city grew. It nourished itself and offered each man a partnership limited only by his talent, his guile and his willingness and capacity for hard work. For the immigrants of Europe, a dream dared and won true.

to register the ambiguous presence of white folks in a segregated black world -- the way you see them nowhere and feel them everywhere.

We are running out of energy, mental energy, ... We need to generate something new, for ourselves.

Writing has definitely been a refuge for me, something I needed to do in order to survive.

Joe Turner's Come and Gone.

[Wilson may never see the marquee or sit in the theater that carries his name. Last month, in an interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, he announced that he was dying of liver cancer, with three to five months to live. He disclosed it with the type of plainspoken grit one of his heroic characters might admire.] I've lived a blessed life, ... I'm ready.

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. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

Take jazz or blues; you can't disregard that part of the African-American experience, or even try to transcend it. They are affirmations and celebrations of the value and worth of the African-American spirit. And young people would do well to understand them as the roots of today's rap, rather than some antique to be tossed away.

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.

Blacks in America want to forget about slavery -- the stigma, the shame. That's the wrong move. If you can't be who you are, who can you be? How can you know what to do? We have our history. We have our book, which is the blues. And we forget it all.

I have to confess that I'm not a big movie person. I don't go to a lot of films. And I don't know very much about the history of stage-to-film adaptations.

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