List of Lorraine Hansberry Quotes

One For Whom Bread- Food- Is Not Enough.

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.'

Ball Points Belong To Their Age. They Make Everyone Write Alike.

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--

Children See Things Very Well Sometimes And Idealists Even Better.

American Straightforwardness Is Almost As Disarming As Americans Invariably Think It Is.

[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.

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...

Everybody Talking 'bout Heaven Ain't Going There!

Mama - Mama - I Want So Many Things... I Want So Many Things That They Are Driving Me Kind Of Crazy.

When A Man Knows That The Abstraction Ten Exists - Nothing On Earth Can Stop Him From Looking For The Fact Of Eleven.

Our Southside Is A Place Apart: Each Piece Of Our Living Is A Protest.