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Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.

Lorraine Hansberry

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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Children Dream Men
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

Dream Holding Wanted
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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Brain Intelligence Women
American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Disarm Thinking
It’s dangerous, son.’ ‘What’s dangerous?’ ‘When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

House Men Son
One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Eye Feelings Heart
Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Heaven Talking
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Children Mean Struggle
I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Eggs First Want
Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Dream Inspirational Love
I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Finals Stupidity Triumph
Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Pieces Protest
There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Inspirational Love Raisins
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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Diversity Justice Mind
Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Age Balls Writing
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…
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Journey Moving Preparation

Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.

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