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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYObviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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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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Mama – Mama – I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.
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I was born black and female.
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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 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 care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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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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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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I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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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 want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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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 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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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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