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…
LORRAINE HANSBERRYChildren see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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I happen to believe that most people – and this is where I differ from many of my contemporaries, or at least as they express themselves – I think that virtually every human being is dramatically interesting. Not only is he dramatically interesting, he is a creature of stature whoever he is.
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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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Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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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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A 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.
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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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[T]here is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little picture — in front of us — our own little mirage that we think is the future.
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One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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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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