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.’
LORRAINE HANSBERRYOur Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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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The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
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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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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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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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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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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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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.
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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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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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Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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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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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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Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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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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