I was born black and female.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYThe 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.
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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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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Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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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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I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
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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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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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I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.
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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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I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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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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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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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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