“Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women”

It’s dangerous, son.’ ‘What’s dangerous?’ ‘When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.

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.

American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.

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.

When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists – nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.

Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it’s money. I guess the world really do change.

That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.

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.

[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.

I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!

One for whom bread- food- is not enough.

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.

Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

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.

I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.

Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations.

We mystify the art of moviemaking, but it’s not amystical science. You take a good screenplay, put a group togetherand you hammer it out.

The emerging whole manifests locally. It manifests in particular communities, groups, and, ultimately, in us as individuals.

The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.

We’ve all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that’s all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it’s just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.

I coach young people. I have a group called BTP – Broadway Theatre Project.

I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.

It’s been such a group effort. When you’re a new band and you have limited resources, you end up getting people that are there because they love what you do, and that’s great.