Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
LORRAINE HANSBERRYOne cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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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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I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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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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Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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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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Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it’s money. I guess the world really do change.
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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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There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
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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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Mama – Mama – I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.
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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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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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Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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I was born black and female.
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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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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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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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I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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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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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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What 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–
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The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
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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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I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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