Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYDo 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.
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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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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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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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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One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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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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Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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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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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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I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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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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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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There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
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