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Lorraine Hansberry quotes: I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!

I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!

Lorraine Hansberry quotes: 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.

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.

Lorraine Hansberry quotes: 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.

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.

Lorraine Hansberry quotes: Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it's money. I guess the world really do change.

Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it's money. I guess the world really do change.

Lorraine Hansberry quotes: In my mother's house there is still God."Act 1, Scene 1 ~ A Raisin in the Sun

In my mother's house there is still God."
Act 1, Scene 1 ~ A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry quotes: Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better.

Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better.

Lorraine Hansberry quotes: Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.

Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.

Lorraine Hansberry quotes: Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women

Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women

Lorraine Hansberry quotes: That's what being eccentric meansbeing natural.

That's what being eccentric means
being natural.

Lorraine Hansberry quotes: Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

Lorraine Hansberry quotes: How we gets to the place where we scared to talk softness to each other.

How we gets to the place where we scared to talk softness to each other.

Lorraine Hansberry quotes: There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

Lorraine Hansberry quotes: I was born black and female.

I was born black and female.

Lorraine Hansberry quotes: One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.

Lorraine Hansberry quotes: Cause sometimes it's hard to let the future begin!

Cause sometimes it's hard to let the future begin!

Lorraine Hansberry quotes: You're a nice-looking girl ... all over. That's all you need, honey, forget the atmosphere.

You're a nice-looking girl ... all over. That's all you need, honey, forget the atmosphere.

Lorraine Hansberry quotes: The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

Lorraine Hansberry quotes: 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

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

Lorraine Hansberry quotes: American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.

American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.

Lorraine Hansberry quotes: Something always told me I wasn't no rich white woman.

Something always told me I wasn't no rich white woman.

Lorraine Hansberry quotes: MamaMamaI want so many things ... I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy ...

Mama
Mama
I want so many things ... I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy ...

Lorraine Hansberry quotes: I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!" "Finish your eggs first.

I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!"
"Finish your eggs first.

Lorraine Hansberry quotes: I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love.

I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love.

Lorraine Hansberry quotes: When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.

When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.

Lorraine Hansberry quotes: I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.

I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.

Lorraine Hansberry quotes: Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.

Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.

Lorraine Hansberry quotes: It's dangerous, son." "What's dangerous?" "When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.

It's dangerous, son."
"What's dangerous?"
"When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.

Lorraine Hansberry quotes: Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.

Lorraine Hansberry quotes: DAMN MY EGGS! DAMN ALL THE EGGS THAT EVER WAS! -Wilson

DAMN MY EGGS! DAMN ALL THE EGGS THAT EVER WAS! -Wilson