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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.

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August Wilson
Age: 60 †
Born: 1945
Born: April 27
Died: 2005
Died: October 2
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Pittsburg
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Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.
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Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.
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All you need is the blues. To me, the blues is the book, it's the bible, it's everything.
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So somehow, things that seem extraneous to the play in reality are not. The scene lasts 37 minutes, and you only need 12 minutes of that for the plot. But if you pull the rest of it out, it's not my play.
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The details of our struggle to survive and prosper, in what has been a difficult and sometimes bitter relationship with a system of laws and practices that deny us access to the tools necessary for productive and industrious life, are available to any serious student of history or sociology.
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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.
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Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.
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You are responsible for the world that you live in.
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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 -
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My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.
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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.
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I don't write for a particular audience.
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Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.
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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.
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All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.
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Style ain't nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end. Everybody got it.
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Life don't owe you nothing.
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I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible.
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I think that as a playwright, if I detail that environment, then I'm taking away something from them [designers]. I'm taking away their creativity and their ability to have input themselves, not just to follow what the playwright has written. So I do a minimum set description and let the designers create within that.
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Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.
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