I was born black and female.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYAmerican straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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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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Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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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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One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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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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[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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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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The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
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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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Beneatha: 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.
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That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
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