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August Wilson Quotes

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: american
Birth: April 27, 1945 - October 2, 2005

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Experience Black Situation Up Where

We all grew up aware of Agatha Christie; there is no writer more prolific than her in England.

Andrea Riseborough

More Up Her Aware Writer Than

The media doesn't need a conscience; people need consciences.

John Hockenberry

People Media Need Conscience

Usually, on Broadway or in Hollywood, you come up with a project, and you have to convince the producers that it's safe.

You Hollywood Project Up Convince

I endorsed Governor John Kasich for President because I felt like he was the most qualified and the best person to lead our nation.

Robert J. Bentley

Best Person President Nation Lead

'Moesha' is very strong in my brain. The black women on 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' are very strong in my brain.

Women Brain Strong Black Fresh Very

My personal belief is that everything is always happening all at once.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Personal Belief Always Everything

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself.

Joseph Pulitzer

Time People Will Cynical Press Base

For 'King Cole's American Salvage,' I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and hook up the cars. I watched the guy who tore apart the cars in the junkyard. I also wrote poems about those guys. I loved hanging around the yard.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

King Loved American Him Up Guy

While I live a busy life, the pace ebbs and flows.

Life Live Busy Pace Busy Life While

The older I get, the younger I feel. Growing up, I was always the kid, but I spoke like an adult and was in adult roles. I didn't feel like a kid. The older I get, I actually feel younger! Which is good. I always thought when you get older, you'll want to slow down, but I want to do even more.

Good Growing Up Thought Slow You

I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't. I have a life. I treat it as a 9-to-5. I try to create something new every day, and then I get on with my life.

Life Love Live Day Treat My Life

During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations would provoke in me.

School Me High School Anxiety Lose

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