Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYAmerican straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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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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[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 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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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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Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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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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I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.
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Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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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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