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 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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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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Mama – Mama – I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.
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Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so – doubly dynamic – to be young, gifted and black.
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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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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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There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
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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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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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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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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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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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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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That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
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