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 HANSBERRYEverybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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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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It’s dangerous, son.’ ‘What’s dangerous?’ ‘When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.
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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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There may be women to emerge who will be able to formulate a new and possible concept that homosexual persecution and condemnation has at its roots not only social ignorance, but a philosophically active anti-feminist dogma.
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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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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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Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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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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The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
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Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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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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What you ain’t never understood is that I ain’t got nothing, don’t own nothing, ain’t never really wanted nothing that wasn’t for you. There ain’t nothing as precious to me…There ain’t nothing worth holding on to, money, dreams, nothing else–
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Ah, I like the look of packing crates! A household in preparation for a journey! … Something full of the flow of life, do you understand? Movement, progress…
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It 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.
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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men – and people in general.
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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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[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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One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.
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I was born black and female.
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Big Walter used to say, he’d get right wet in the eyes sometimes, lean his head back with the water standing in his eyes and say, ‘Seem like God didn’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worth while.’
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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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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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I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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