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One for whom bread- food- is not enough.

Lorraine Hansberry

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 HANSBERRY

Dream Holding Wanted
Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it’s money. I guess the world really do change.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Once Upon A Time Used World
Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Acceptance Children Inspirational
That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Eccentric Mean Natural
I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Destiny Stars Thinking
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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Race Struggle Thinking
American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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Disarm Thinking
Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Pieces Protest
Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Heaven Talking
Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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Groups Oppressed
One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Bread Enough Food One
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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Future Sometimes Waiting
I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Care Caring Energy
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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Doubt Giving Struggle
I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific. Universality, I think, emerges from truthful identity of what is.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Believe Thinking Writing
It’s dangerous, son.’ ‘What’s dangerous?’ ‘When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

House Men Son

One for whom bread- food- is not enough.

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