This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn’t seem to give an answer, we create one.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY[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.
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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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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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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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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I was born black and female.
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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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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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Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so – doubly dynamic – to be young, gifted and black.
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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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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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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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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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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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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–
LORRAINE HANSBERRY
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