There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
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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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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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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I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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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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Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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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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Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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I was born black and female.
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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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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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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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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 care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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