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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYOur Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
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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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That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
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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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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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Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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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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I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.
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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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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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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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It’s dangerous, son.’ ‘What’s dangerous?’ ‘When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.
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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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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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I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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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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