Mama – Mama – I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYIt’s dangerous, son.’ ‘What’s dangerous?’ ‘When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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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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Ah, I like the look of packing crates! A household in preparation for a journey! … Something full of the flow of life, do you understand? Movement, progress…
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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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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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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 look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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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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Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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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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One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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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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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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