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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.

Lorraine Hansberry

What you ain’t never understood is that I ain’t got nothing, don’t own nothing, ain’t never really wanted nothing that wasn’t for you. There ain’t nothing as precious to me…There ain’t nothing worth holding on to, money, dreams, nothing else–
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Dream Holding Wanted
I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

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

Crazy Mama Want
American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Disarm Thinking
That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

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

Destiny Stars Thinking
When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists – nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Curiosity Earth Men
Beneatha: You didn’t tell us what Alaiyo means… for all I know, you might be calling me Little Idiot or something… … Asagai: It means… it means One for Whom Bread–Food–Is Not Enough.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

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

Inspirational Love Raisins
There may be women to emerge who will be able to formulate a new and possible concept that homosexual persecution and condemnation has at its roots not only social ignorance, but a philosophically active anti-feminist dogma.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Feminist Ignorance Roots
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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Believe People Thinking
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Children Mean Struggle
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 Giving Struggle
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

Future Sometimes Waiting
Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it’s money. I guess the world really do change.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Once Upon A Time Used World

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