One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.
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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Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it’s money. I guess the world really do change.
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One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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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 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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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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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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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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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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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 was born black and female.
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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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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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Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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