Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
LORRAINE HANSBERRY
Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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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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Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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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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I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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Seems like God don’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.
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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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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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I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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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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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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I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.
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This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn’t seem to give an answer, we create one.
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