"I write for myself and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there."

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August Wilson

#Writing Quotes #Space Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I get offered movies probably twice a month and they are just generally bad.”

Source : Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. October 6, 2004.
“Probably the first time I left Italy was to travel by train to Lourdes. I went with my mother and my grandmother - who was a very religious person - so it was a pilgrimage of sorts. I remember it as a very intense, but beautiful experience.”
“The stresses, strains, and traumas of ordinary daily existence in the process of working and living tend to inhibit our breathing ability.”
“In reality, most women 'choose' abortion because they believe they have no other choice.”
“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
“Some of my greatest role models are the young children who ask the right questions - who will sit down and share their concerns. They're not just learning from me - they're educating me. That's what drives me.”

Source : "The Pioneer". Interview with Erik Kancler, www.motherjones.com. April 25, 2005.
“The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.”

Source : Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”
“The ability to look at certain patterns with regards to urban fashion, with regards to swagger, with regards to cultural hegemony, with regards to the ways in which young people look at resistance culture as a pattern that should be mimicked and admired.”

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