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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.

Lorraine Hansberry

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

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

Once Upon A Time Used World
There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Inspirational Love Raisins
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
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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Journey Moving Preparation
I was born black and female.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

African American Black Female
Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Heaven Talking
I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.
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Destiny Stars Thinking
Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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Age Balls Writing
Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Life Men Violence
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
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
Mama – Mama – I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Crazy Mama Want
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
American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Disarm Thinking
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

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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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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