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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYI care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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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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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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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 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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I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.
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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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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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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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Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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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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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 look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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