I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYBall points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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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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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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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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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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Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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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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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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Mama – Mama – I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.
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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 was born black and female.
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Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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I think that the glorious thing about the human race is that it does change the world — constantly. The world or ‘life’ may seem to more often overwhelm the human being’s capacity for struggling against being overwhelmed which is remarkable and exhilarating.
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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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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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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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