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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYA 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.
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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I was born black and female.
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That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
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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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I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific. Universality, I think, emerges from truthful identity of what is.
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I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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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 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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I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love.
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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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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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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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