That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYIt’s dangerous, son.’ ‘What’s dangerous?’ ‘When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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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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I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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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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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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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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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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I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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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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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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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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Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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Sometimes, I can see the future stretched out in front of me – just as plain as day. The future hanging over there at the edge of my days. Just waiting for me.
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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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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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[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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One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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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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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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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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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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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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