One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYOnce upon a time freedom used to be life-now it’s money. I guess the world really do change.
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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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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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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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
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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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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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Big Walter used to say, he’d get right wet in the eyes sometimes, lean his head back with the water standing in his eyes and say, ‘Seem like God didn’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worth while.’
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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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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 look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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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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[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.
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Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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