"The Piano Lesson" Quotes
A family in 1930s Pittsburgh debates the significance of a piano with a carved history in their struggle to overcome the past.
plays | 108 pages | Published in 1990
Quotes
I ain't trying to make Pappy rich. I'm trying to make myself rich.
I got to take my rightful place in the world. My daddy died for this piano. This is my daddy's legacy.
I believe in the work. I believe in what I do.
You can't sell your soul for money. Money's not gonna save your soul.
Sometimes to keep from killing somebody you got to kill a part of yourself.
You just can't take a man and throw him up against the wall and not expect him to do something about it.
The man who controls the water controls life.
I don't know what's right no more. I don't know what's wrong.
I ain't gonna let nobody sit at my table and drink out of my cup and talk about me and mine.
I ain't asking you to change. I'm asking you to take me with you.





