Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
LORRAINE HANSBERRYBall points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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I was born black and female.
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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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[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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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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Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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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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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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It’s dangerous, son.’ ‘What’s dangerous?’ ‘When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.
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What you ain’t never understood is that I ain’t got nothing, don’t own nothing, ain’t never really wanted nothing that wasn’t for you. There ain’t nothing as precious to me…There ain’t nothing worth holding on to, money, dreams, nothing else–
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I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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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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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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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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Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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