I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
LORRAINE HANSBERRYObviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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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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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 think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.
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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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Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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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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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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Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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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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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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Mama – Mama – I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.
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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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