One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYOnce upon a time freedom used to be life-now it’s money. I guess the world really do change.
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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Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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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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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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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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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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Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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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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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.’
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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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I was born black and female.
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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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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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I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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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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