Lorraine Hansberry Quotes - Page 2

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

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.

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

I was born black and female.

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.

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.

Everybody talking 'bout heaven ain't going there!

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.

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

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

[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.

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

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

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

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

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...

Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.

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--

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

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.'

One for whom bread- food- is not enough.