Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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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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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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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Mama – Mama – I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.
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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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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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Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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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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I was born black and female.
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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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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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One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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