Top 47 Quotes About Lorraine Hansberry
#1. 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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#2. Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it's money. I guess the world really do change.
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#3. [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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#5. Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When he's done good and made things easy for everybody? That ain't the time at all. It's when he's at his lowest ... ... and he can't believe in himself because the world's whipped him so!
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#6. Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better.
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#8. 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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#9. How we gets to the place where we scared to talk softness to each other.
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#10. The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. What you ain't never understood is that I ain't got nothing, don't own nothing, ain't never really wanted nothing that wasn't for you. There ain't nothing as precious to me ... There ain't nothing worth holding on to, money, dreams, nothing else
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#14. It's dangerous, son."
"What's dangerous?"
"When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.
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#15. Mama
Mama
I want so many things ... I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy ...
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#16. 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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#18. 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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#19. In my mother's house there is still God."
Act 1, Scene 1 ~ A Raisin in the Sun
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#20. Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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#21. I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.
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#22. 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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#23. [Beneatha Younger:] ... He said everybody ought to learn how to sit down and hate each other with good Chrisitan fellowship.
[excerpt from Act II, Scene 3]
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#24. I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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#25. I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy NOT to care ... the WHY of why we are here is an intrigue for adolescents; the HOW is what must command the living. Which is why I have lately become an insurgent again.
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#26. MAMA (Quietly, woman to woman)
He finally come into his manhood today, didn't he? Kind of like a rainbow after the rain ...
RUTH (Biting her lip, lest her own pride explode in front of Mama)
Yes, Lena.
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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. 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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#36. There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.
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#37. Perhaps I will be a great man ... I mean perhaps I will hold on to the substance of truth and find my way always with the right course
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#38. 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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#39. 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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#40. For above all, in behalf of an ailing world which sorely needs our defiance, may we, as Negroes or women, never accept the notion of - our place.
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#43. You're a nice-looking girl ... all over. That's all you need, honey, forget the atmosphere.
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#45. 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.
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#46. 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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#47. American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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