There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYBeneatha: You didn’t tell us what Alaiyo means… for all I know, you might be calling me Little Idiot or something… … Asagai: It means… it means One for Whom Bread–Food–Is Not Enough.
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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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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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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Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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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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I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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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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I was born black and female.
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Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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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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Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it’s money. I guess the world really do change.
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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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