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August Wilson Quotes

Part of what our problem as blacks in America is that we don't claim that. Partly, you see, because of the linguistic environment in which we live.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Live America Environment Problem You

Romance is quite an overblown word. This idea of chocolates and champagne and that's it. There's more to love than that. Romance is quite a soppy word. Love is much more important.

Love Love Is Important More Romance

Death is such a strange thing. One minute you're here and then just gone. You'd think there would be an anteroom, a place where you could be visited before you go.

Death Think You Place Go Strange

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

Soul Genius Know Unknown Without

God requireth not a uniformity of religion.

God Religion Uniformity

I don't want to always be the tortured, soulful wife.

Wife Want Always Tortured Soulful

I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.

Ideas Think Grow New New Ideas Big

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Nature Love Love Is Someone Human

There are some who invoke separation of church and state - to try to get the government out of the business of morality - but this is antithetical to what the founders wanted. The founders wanted to keep theology out of government so that government could focus on the proper business of morality.

Business Focus Government Church Try

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

Douglas MacArthur

Fear War Country Now Economy Policy

I remember I used to watch 'Buffy,' and I'd be like, 'Ah man, I would kill to be on 'Buffy,' to be part of that little crime-solving team fighting demons and monsters.'

Man Team Fighting Remember Demons

For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Good Habit Year Look New New Year

Maybe I don't take myself quite as seriously as I used to, but the work has gotten better and more interesting, and I'm just having more fun. It's getting more and more fun with each role.

Work Myself Fun Better Interesting

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