I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYThere is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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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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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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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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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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It is difficult for the American mind to adjust to the realization that the Rhetts and the Scarletts were as much monsters as the keepers of Buchenwald-they just dressed more attractively.
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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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It’s dangerous, son.’ ‘What’s dangerous?’ ‘When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.
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Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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I was born black and female.
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Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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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 care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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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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