Mama – Mama – I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYA 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.
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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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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I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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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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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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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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That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
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Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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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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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 was born black and female.
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One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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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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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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