It’s dangerous, son.’ ‘What’s dangerous?’ ‘When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.
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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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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Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it’s money. I guess the world really do change.
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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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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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Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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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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One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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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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That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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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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[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 look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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