Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
LORRAINE HANSBERRYAmerican straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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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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Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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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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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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Mama – Mama – I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.
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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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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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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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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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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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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.
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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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There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
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Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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