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.
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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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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[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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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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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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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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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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The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
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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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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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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 think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.
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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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