When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists – nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.
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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Ah, I like the look of packing crates! A household in preparation for a journey! … Something full of the flow of life, do you understand? Movement, progress…
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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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Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it’s money. I guess the world really do change.
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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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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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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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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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I was born black and female.
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Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually — without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts? This is what I puzzle about.
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Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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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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Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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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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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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