Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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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I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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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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There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
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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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There may be women to emerge who will be able to formulate a new and possible concept that homosexual persecution and condemnation has at its roots not only social ignorance, but a philosophically active anti-feminist dogma.
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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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It’s dangerous, son.’ ‘What’s dangerous?’ ‘When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.
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I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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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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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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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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That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
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One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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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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