I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
LORRAINE HANSBERRYObviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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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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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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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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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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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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Mama – Mama – I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.
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I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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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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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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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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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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