One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.
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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Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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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.’
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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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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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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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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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Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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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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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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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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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 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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