I think that the glorious thing about the human race is that it does change the world — constantly. The world or ‘life’ may seem to more often overwhelm the human being’s capacity for struggling against being overwhelmed which is remarkable and exhilarating.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYIt is difficult for the American mind to adjust to the realization that the Rhetts and the Scarletts were as much monsters as the keepers of Buchenwald-they just dressed more attractively.
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists – nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.
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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually — without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts? This is what I puzzle about.
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Mama – Mama – I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.
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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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[T]here is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little picture — in front of us — our own little mirage that we think is the future.
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This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn’t seem to give an answer, we create one.
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Seems like God don’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.
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One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.
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Beneatha: You didn’t tell us what Alaiyo means… for all I know, you might be calling me Little Idiot or something… … Asagai: It means… it means One for Whom Bread–Food–Is Not Enough.
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