I was born black and female.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYNever be afraid to sit a while and think.
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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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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I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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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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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 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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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 think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.
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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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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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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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It’s dangerous, son.’ ‘What’s dangerous?’ ‘When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.
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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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I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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