[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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYBeneatha: 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.
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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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.
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One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
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Sometimes, I can see the future stretched out in front of me – just as plain as day. The future hanging over there at the edge of my days. Just waiting for me.
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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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Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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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.
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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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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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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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I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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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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Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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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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Mama – Mama – I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.
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