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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.’

Lorraine Hansberry

One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Bread Enough Food One
I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Care Caring Energy
Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Life Men Violence
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–
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Dream Holding Wanted
There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Inspirational Love Raisins
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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Being Alone Loneliness Running
Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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Heaven Talking
American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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Disarm Thinking
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Children Mean Struggle
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 HANSBERRY

Calling Littles Mean
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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Believe People Thinking
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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Doubt Giving Struggle
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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Feminist Ignorance Roots
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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Diversity Justice Mind
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 HANSBERRY

Race Struggle Thinking
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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Believe Thinking Writing

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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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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