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

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Stupidity, Triumph, Finals

  Lorraine Hansberry (2011). “A Raisin in the Sun”, p.120, Vintage

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• 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 Hansberry

  Struggle, Thinking, Race

  Lorraine Hansberry (1972). “Les blancs: the collected last plays of Lorraine Hansberry”, Random House Inc

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

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Eggs, Want, Firsts

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• I was born black and female.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  African American, Black, Female

  Lorraine Hansberry (2012). “Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?”, p.8, Vintage

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• 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.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Mean, Calling, Littles

  "A Raisin in the Sun". Book by Lorraine Hansberry, www.theguardian.com. 1959.

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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.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• Everybody talking 'bout heaven ain't going there!

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Talking, Heaven

  Lorraine Hansberry (2011). “A Raisin in the Sun”, p.106, Vintage

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• 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 Hansberry

  Justice, Diversity, Mind

  Lorraine Hansberry (1994). “The Collected Last Plays”, Vintage

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• Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Life, Men, Violence

  "Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?".

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

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Crazy, Want, Mama

  Lorraine Hansberry (2011). “A Raisin in the Sun”, p.65, Vintage

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• [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.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Thinking, Circles, Mirages

  Lorraine Hansberry (2011). “A Raisin in the Sun”, p.116, Vintage

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

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Son, Men, House

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

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Pieces, Protest

  Lorraine Hansberry (2012). “Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?”, p.5, Vintage

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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.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Men, Curiosity, Earth

  Lorraine Hansberry (2012). “Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?”, p.114, Vintage

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

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Thinking, Disarming

  Lorraine Hansberry (2012). “Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers?”, p.73, Vintage

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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...

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Moving, Journey, Preparation

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

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Inspirational, Children, Acceptance

  Lorraine Hansberry (2011). “A Raisin in the Sun”, p.116, Vintage

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• 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--

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Dream, Holding On, Wanted

  Lorraine Hansberry (2011). “A Raisin in the Sun”, p.93, Vintage

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

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Writing, Age, Balls

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• Big Walter used to say, he'd get right wet in the eyes sometimes, lean his head back with the water standing in his eyes and say, 'Seem like God didn't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worth while.'

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Dream, Children, Eye

  "A Raisin in the Sun".

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• One for whom bread- food- is not enough.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Bread, Enough

  Lorraine Hansberry (2011). “A Raisin in the Sun”, p.58, Vintage

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