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 HANSBERRYI think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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I was born black and female.
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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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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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Mama – Mama – I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.
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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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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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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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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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The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
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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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Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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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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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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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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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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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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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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Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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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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There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
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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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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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