Mama – Mama – I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYI 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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That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
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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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The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
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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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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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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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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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Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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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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I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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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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I think that the glorious thing about the human race is that it does change the world — constantly. The world or ‘life’ may seem to more often overwhelm the human being’s capacity for struggling against being overwhelmed which is remarkable and exhilarating.
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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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Sometimes, I can see the future stretched out in front of me – just as plain as day. The future hanging over there at the edge of my days. Just waiting for me.
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I was born black and female.
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One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.
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Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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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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I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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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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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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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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