[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.

LORRAINE HANSBERRY

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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.

Lorraine Hansberry

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Bagwalas

Big Walter used to say, he’d get right wet in the eyes sometimes, lean his head back with the water standing in his eyes and say, ‘Seem like God didn’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worth while.’

LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Big Walter used to say, he’d get right wet in the eyes sometimes, lean his head back with the water standing in his eyes and say, ‘Seem like God didn’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worth while.’
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Everyone Eye
I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.

LORRAINE HANSBERRY

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

LORRAINE HANSBERRY

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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY
Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.

LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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Balls
Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?

LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.

LORRAINE HANSBERRY

American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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Disarm
One for whom bread- food- is not enough.

LORRAINE HANSBERRY

One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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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

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

Sometimes Waiting
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

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
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.

LORRAINE HANSBERRY

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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Being Alone Running
Mama – Mama – I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.

LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Mama – Mama – I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Mama
There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.

LORRAINE HANSBERRY

There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Raisins
One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.

LORRAINE HANSBERRY

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Eye Feelings
It’s dangerous, son.’ ‘What’s dangerous?’ ‘When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.

LORRAINE HANSBERRY

It’s dangerous, son.’ ‘What’s dangerous?’ ‘When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.
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Son
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.

LORRAINE HANSBERRY

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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY
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.

LORRAINE HANSBERRY

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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

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