This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn’t seem to give an answer, we create one.
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 think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.
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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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Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it’s money. I guess the world really do change.
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I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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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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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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Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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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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That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
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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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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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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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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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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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