One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYBig 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.’
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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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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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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Mama – Mama – I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.
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Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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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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I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific. Universality, I think, emerges from truthful identity of what is.
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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 look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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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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Beneatha: You didn’t tell us what Alaiyo means… for all I know, you might be calling me Little Idiot or something… … Asagai: It means… it means One for Whom Bread–Food–Is Not Enough.
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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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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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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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