I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYI think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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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 want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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It’s dangerous, son.’ ‘What’s dangerous?’ ‘When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.
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One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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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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I was born black and female.
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It is difficult for the American mind to adjust to the realization that the Rhetts and the Scarletts were as much monsters as the keepers of Buchenwald-they just dressed more attractively.
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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 care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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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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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 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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The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
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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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