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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYI wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love.
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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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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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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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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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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Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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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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The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
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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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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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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 want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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Mama – Mama – I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.
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One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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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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