Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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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There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
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I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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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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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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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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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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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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Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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It is difficult for the American mind to adjust to the realization that the Rhetts and the Scarletts were as much monsters as the keepers of Buchenwald-they just dressed more attractively.
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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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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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I was born black and female.
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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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