There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYThere 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.
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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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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Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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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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Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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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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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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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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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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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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I think that the glorious thing about the human race is that it does change the world — constantly. The world or ‘life’ may seem to more often overwhelm the human being’s capacity for struggling against being overwhelmed which is remarkable and exhilarating.
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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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