The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
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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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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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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Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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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’s dangerous, son.’ ‘What’s dangerous?’ ‘When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.
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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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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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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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Mama – Mama – I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.
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Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it’s money. I guess the world really do change.
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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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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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