August Wilson Quotes

Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. 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, and that is the blues.

August Wilson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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We have already seen evidence that, notwithstanding the addition of substantial resources, we are experiencing great stress in recruiting and not inconsequential retention problems.

John M. McHugh

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The Framers of the Constitution wisely understood that constitutional principles must not be sacrificed on the altar of political appeasement.

Max Baucus

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I mostly wear hats or put scarves over my head because I like to have a low profile when I go out.

Ann-Margret

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It is always an eerie experience to sit among Bashar al-Assad's soldiers.

Robert Fisk

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My people came from western Tennessee and western Kentucky.

Rodney Crowell

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When you think of Mitch Leigh as a businessman, remember he's also a composer. And when you think of Mitch Leigh as a composer, remember he's also a businessman.

Mitch Leigh

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A watch is a fashion statement, and it says something about the person wearing it.

Luke Evans

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I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.

Loni Anderson

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What's important to me is to share, and being inspired, and inspiring.

Diane von Furstenberg

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The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.

Algernon Sidney

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Even though I pretty much made my own decisions early on, when I was younger I tended to overbook my life.

Sheena Easton

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To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

Thomas Traherne

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