Lorraine Hansberry on doubt
Lorraine Hansberry40 quotes“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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The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
Lorraine HansberryLorraine Hansberry 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.
Lorraine HansberryLorraine Hansberry I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
Lorraine HansberryLorraine Hansberry 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.
Lorraine HansberryLorraine Hansberry There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
Lorraine HansberryLorraine Hansberry 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.
Lorraine HansberryLorraine Hansberry Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
Lorraine HansberryLorraine Hansberry Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
Lorraine HansberryLorraine Hansberry Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
Lorraine HansberryLorraine Hansberry 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.’
Lorraine HansberryLorraine Hansberry 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 HansberryLorraine Hansberry I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
Lorraine HansberryLorraine Hansberry 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.
Lorraine HansberryLorraine Hansberry I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.
Lorraine HansberryLorraine Hansberry I was born black and female.
Lorraine HansberryLorraine Hansberry 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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Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
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BK ShivaniBK Shivani Love is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing. It blossoms with faith and grows with gratitude.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar In my heart where I’ve built a wall, you grew loving vines in my days of doubts and gray clouds, you said; “in my eyes, darling you shine” Maybe you loved me then but I know, I loved you too late.
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BK ShivaniBK Shivani Faith makes you stable and steady. It brings out the totality in you. Consolidation of your energy is faith. Dissemination of energy is doubt.
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