Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it’s money. I guess the world really do change.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYThis 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.
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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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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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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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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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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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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It’s dangerous, son.’ ‘What’s dangerous?’ ‘When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.
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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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Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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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 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 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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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.
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I was born black and female.
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