That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYBall points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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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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What you ain’t never understood is that I ain’t got nothing, don’t own nothing, ain’t never really wanted nothing that wasn’t for you. There ain’t nothing as precious to me…There ain’t nothing worth holding on to, money, dreams, nothing else–
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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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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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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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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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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 look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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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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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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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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