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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYMama – Mama – I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so – doubly dynamic – to be young, gifted and black.
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I happen to believe that most people – and this is where I differ from many of my contemporaries, or at least as they express themselves – I think that virtually every human being is dramatically interesting. Not only is he dramatically interesting, he is a creature of stature whoever he is.
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Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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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.
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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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It’s dangerous, son.’ ‘What’s dangerous?’ ‘When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.
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One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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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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Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it’s money. I guess the world really do change.
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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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Mama – Mama – I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.
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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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