I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYWhat you ain’t never understood is that I ain’t got nothing, don’t own nothing, ain’t never really wanted nothing that wasn’t for you. There ain’t nothing as precious to me…There ain’t nothing worth holding on to, money, dreams, nothing else–
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
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Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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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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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.
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I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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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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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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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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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.
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One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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