Fences Troy Quotes & Sayings

I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas. — Dan Brown

I think the play offers (white Americans) a different way to look at black Americans For instance, in 'Fences' they see a garbageman, a person they don't really look at, although they see a garbageman every day. By looking at Troy's life, white people find out that the content of this black garbageman's life is affected by the same things- love, honor, beauty, betrayal, duty. Recognizing that these things are as much part of his life as theirs can affect how they think about and deal with black people in their lives. — August Wilson

If you could hear the angels pen your deeds... what would you be doing with your life? — Aisha Mirza

Sometimes the serpent is represented as a circle eating its own tail. That's an image of life. Life sheds one generation after another, to be born again. The serpent represents immortal energy and consciousness engaged in the field of time, constantly throwing off death and being born again. There is something tremendously terrifying about life when you look at it that way. And so the serpent carries in itself the sense of both the fascination and the terror of life. — Joseph Campbell

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. — August Wilson

One thing's for sure. We're not gonna fit in, but we're gonna stand out" -Keisha — Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Clear night, thumb-top of a moon, a back-lit sky.
Moon-fingers lay down their same routine
On the side deck and the threshold, the white keys and the black keys.
Bird hush and bird song. A cassia flower falls.
I want to be bruised by God.
I want to be strung up in a strong light and singled out.
I want to be stretched, like music wrung from a dropped seed.
I want to be entered and picked clean.
And the wind says "What?" to me.
And the castor beans, with their little earrings of death, say "What?" to me.
And the stars start out on their cold slide through the dark.
And the gears notch and the engines wheel. — Charles Wright

Oh no, I
thought, tomorrow is Sunday again! Sundays seemed to be rolling
around every four days. Another two Sundays and I would be 20 years
old — Haruki Murakami

Believe in yourself. Under-confidence leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy that you are not good enough for your work. — Roopleen

In the past, when I saw bike messengers, I would just see them as individuals. Then, I realized that they're all tied together. — Dania Ramirez

Two windows," she said with a smile. "And there's no such word as besweatered." "It's like bespectacled, only with a sweater. — Janet Evanovich

How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

AlmaMia was seven the night she shaved her fourteen-year-old sister's left eyebrow while the older sibling slept. — Magaly Guerrero