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Joe Turner's Come and Gone QUOTES

Joe Turner's Come and Gone QUOTES

1 " Herald Loomis, you shining! You shining like new money! "

― August Wilson , Joe Turner's Come and Gone

2 " 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. "

― August Wilson , Joe Turner's Come and Gone

3 " I don’t need nobody to bleed for me! I can bleed for myself. "

― August Wilson , Joe Turner's Come and Gone

4 " From the deep and the near South the sons and daughters of newly freed African slaves wander into the city. Isolated, cut off from memory, having forgotten the names of the gods and only guessing at their faces, they arrive dazed and stunned, their heart kicking in their chest with a song worth singing. "

― August Wilson , Joe Turner's Come and Gone

5 " Foreigners in a strange land, they carry as part and parcel of their baggage a long line of separation and dispersement which informs their sensibilities and marks their conduct as they search for ways to reconnect, to reassemble, to give clear and luminous meaning to the song which is both a wail and a whelp of joy. "

― August Wilson , Joe Turner's Come and Gone

6 " Why God got to be so big? Why he got to be bigger than me? "

― August Wilson , Joe Turner's Come and Gone

7 " I been wading in the water. I been walking all over the River Jordan. But what it get me, huh? I done been baptized with blood of the lamb and the fire of the Holy Ghost. But what I got, huh? My enemies all around me picking the flesh from my bones. I’m chocking on my own blood and all you got to give me is salvation? "

― August Wilson , Joe Turner's Come and Gone