Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYObviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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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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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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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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Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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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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Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so – doubly dynamic – to be young, gifted and black.
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[T]here is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little picture — in front of us — our own little mirage that we think is the future.
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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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That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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