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 HANSBERRYObviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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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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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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I was born black and female.
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Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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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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Mama – Mama – I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.
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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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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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One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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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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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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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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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of 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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There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
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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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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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The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
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Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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The grim possibility is that she who ‘hides her brains’ will, more than likely, end up with a mate who is only equal to a woman with ‘hidden brains’ or none at all.
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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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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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