Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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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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The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
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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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I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.
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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 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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I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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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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It is difficult for the American mind to adjust to the realization that the Rhetts and the Scarletts were as much monsters as the keepers of Buchenwald-they just dressed more attractively.
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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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Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it’s money. I guess the world really do change.
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I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love.
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The grim possibility is that she who ‘hides her brains’ will, more than likely, end up with a mate who is only equal to a woman with ‘hidden brains’ or none at all.
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