Frases de August Wilson
1 0August Wilson
Data de nascimento: 27. Abril 1945
Data de falecimento: 2. Outubro 2005
Outros nomes:August Wilson
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August Wilson, pseudônimo de Frederick August Kittel foi um dramaturgo estadunidense cujo trabalho incluiu uma série de dez peças de teatro, The Pittsburgh Cycle, pelo qual recebeu dois prêmios Pulitzer de Teatro. Cada um é definido em uma década diferente, representando os aspectos cômicos e trágicos da experiência dos Africano-Americanos, no século XX.
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„In the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.“
— August Wilson, Gem of the Ocean
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„Don't you think I ever wanted other things? Don't you think I had dreams and hopes? What about my life? What about me. Don't you think it ever crossed my mind to want to know other men? That I wanted to lay up somewhere and forget about my responsibilities? That I wanted someone to make me laugh so I could feel good? You not the only one who's got wants and needs. But I held on to you, Troy. I took all my feelings, my wants and needs, my dreams... and I buried them inside you. I planted myself inside you and waited to bloom. And it didn't take me no eighteen years to find out the soil was hard and rocky and it wasn't never gonna bloom.“
— August Wilson, Fences
„Like you? I go out of here every morning… bust my butt…putting up with them crackers everyday…cause I like you? You about the biggest fool I ever saw. It’s my JOB. It’s my RESPONSIBILITY! You understand that? A man got to take care of his family. You live in my house… sleep on my bed clothes…fill you belly up with my food… cause you my son. You my flesh and blood. Not ‘cause I like you! Cause it’s my duty to take care of you. I OWE a responsibility to you! Let’s get this straight right here… before it go along any further… I ain’t got to like you. Mr. Rand don’t five me money come payday cause he likes me. He gives me cause he OWE me. I done give you everything I had to give you. I gave you your life! Me and your mama worked that out between us. And 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. You understand what I’m saying, boy?”
- August Wilson, Fences, 1986.“
— August Wilson, Fences
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„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.“
— August Wilson, Fences
„ROSE: I been standing with you! I been right here with you, Troy. I got a life, too. I gave eighteen years of my life to stand in the same spot with you. Don't you think I ever wanted other things? Don't you think I had dreams and hopes? What about my life? What about me. Don't you think it ever crossed my mind to want to know other men? That I wanted to lay up somewhere and forget about my responsibilities? That I wanted someone to make me laugh so I could feel good? You not the only one who's got wants and needs. But I held on to you, Troy. I took all my feelings, my wants and needs, my dreams... and I buried them inside you. I planted a seed and watched and prayed over it. I planted myself inside you and waited to bloom. And it didn't take me not eighteen years to find out the soil was hard and rocky and it wasn't never gonna bloom. But I held on to you. I held you tighter. You was my husband. I owed you everything I had. Every part of me I could find to give you. And upstairs in that room... with the darkness falling in on me... I gave everything I had to try and erase the doubt that you wasn't the fines man in the world. And wherever you was going... I wanted to be there with you. Cause you was my husband. Cause that's the only way I was gonna survive as your wife. You always taking about what you give... and what you don't have to give. But you take too. You take... and you don't even know nobody's giving!“
— August Wilson, Fences
