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–
LORRAINE HANSBERRYOne for whom bread- food- is not enough.
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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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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I was born black and female.
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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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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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Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it’s money. I guess the world really do change.
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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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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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Though 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.
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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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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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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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One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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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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There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
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