It is difficult for the American mind to adjust to the realization that the Rhetts and the Scarletts were as much monsters as the keepers of Buchenwald-they just dressed more attractively.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYOur Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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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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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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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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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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Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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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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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.
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A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men – and people in general.
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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.
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Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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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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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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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 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.
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