I was born black and female.
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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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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Big Walter used to say, he’d get right wet in the eyes sometimes, lean his head back with the water standing in his eyes and say, ‘Seem like God didn’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worth while.’
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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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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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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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I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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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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That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
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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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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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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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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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