Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
LORRAINE HANSBERRYI look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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It’s dangerous, son.’ ‘What’s dangerous?’ ‘When a man goes outside his house to look for 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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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.
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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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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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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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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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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 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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I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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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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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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