Quotes from August Wilson

Don't you try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sure they doing right by you.

I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

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.

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.

Okay, Troy...you're right. I'll take care of your baby for you...cause...like you say...she's innocent...and you can't visit the sins of the father upon the child. A motherless child has got a hard time. From right now...this child got a mother. But you a womanless man.

I was born to a time of fire.

CORY: You ain't never gave me nothing! You ain't never done nothing but hold me back. Afraid I was gonna be better than you. All you ever did was try and make me scared of you. I used to tremble every time you called my name. Every time I heard your footsteps in the house. Wondering all the time...what's Papa gonna say if I do this?...What's he gonna say if I do that?...What's Papa gonna say if I turn on the radio? And Mama, too...she tries...but she's scared of you.

Everybody in a hurry to slow down.

i love music more than food!!!!!!!!!!

You can't visit the sins of the father upon the child.

Troy: "Then when I saw that gal [Alberta]...she firmed up my backbone. And I got to thinking that if I tried...I just might be able to steal second.

I don't need nobody to bleed for me! I can bleed for myself.

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.

I just want to come and sit on your front porch and drink mint juleps.

I know I got to eat. But I got to live too.

Please, Mr. Engineer let a man ride the line Please, Mr. Engineer let a man ride the line I ain't got no ticket please let me ride the blinds

Sometimes you're lucky and you don't even know it.

You can put law on paper but that don't make it right.

TROY: Death ain't nothing. I done seen him. Done wrasled with him. You can't tell me nothing about death. death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner. And you know what I'll do to that! Lookee here, Bono...am I lying? You get one of them fastballs, about waist high, over the outside corner of the plate where you can get the meat of the bat on it...and good god! You can kiss it goodbye. Now, am I lying?

You die how you live.

Like you? I go out of here every morning...bust my butt...cause I like you? It's my job. It's my responsibility!... Not cause I like you! Cause it's my duty to take care of you. ...liking your black ass wasn't part of the bargain.

Don't try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sure they doing right by you

Sometimes you find bad luck and good luck in the same place.

You jumped but I'm falling too.