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

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

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

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

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

But if home suddenly becomes not like home, what then? — Kate Milford

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was born black and female. — Lorraine Hansberry

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

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

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

That's what being eccentric means
being natural. — Lorraine Hansberry

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. — Lorraine Hansberry

Only a writer would slap a bumper sticker on her car that read, 'Seriously, I'd rather be working'. — Richelle E. Goodrich

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

The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip to haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honor grip, let that aye be your border. — Robert Burns

Harrison Ford's still got it goin' on. He's very sexy in that manly-man kind of way. — Jacqueline Obradors

Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it. — Ben Carson

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

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