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[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.
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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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 look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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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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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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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.
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Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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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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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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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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I was born black and female.
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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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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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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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I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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