When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists – nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYTake away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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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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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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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 want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
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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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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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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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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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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.’
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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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