I was born black and female.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYThough 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.
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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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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I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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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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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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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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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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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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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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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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Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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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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I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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