I was born black and female.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYBall points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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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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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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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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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 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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It’s dangerous, son.’ ‘What’s dangerous?’ ‘When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.
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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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One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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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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[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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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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I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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