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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYThe thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
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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I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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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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Beneatha: 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.
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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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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
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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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I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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I happen to believe that most people – and this is where I differ from many of my contemporaries, or at least as they express themselves – I think that virtually every human being is dramatically interesting. Not only is he dramatically interesting, he is a creature of stature whoever he is.
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Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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