The 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.
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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I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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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.
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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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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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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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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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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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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it 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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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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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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Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it’s money. I guess the world really do change.
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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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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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