98 Quotes by Lorraine Hansberry

"When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right...Make sure you done take into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got wherever he is."

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think."

"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."

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

"I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care."

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

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

"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."

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

"Sometimes, I can see the future stretched out in front of me - just as plain as day. The future hanging over there at the edge of my days. Just waiting for me."