It’s dangerous, son.’ ‘What’s dangerous?’ ‘When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYAh, 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…
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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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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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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Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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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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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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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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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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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 care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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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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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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Mama – Mama – I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.
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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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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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I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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