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.’
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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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
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I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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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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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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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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The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
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One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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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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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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It’s dangerous, son.’ ‘What’s dangerous?’ ‘When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.
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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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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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Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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