Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYI want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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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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Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it’s money. I guess the world really do change.
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Seems like God don’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.
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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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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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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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Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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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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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…
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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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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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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 look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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