Lorraine Hansberry Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Love, Inspiring, Dream

  Lorraine Hansberry (2011). “A Raisin in the Sun”, p.119, Vintage

• It isn't a circle--it is simply a long line--as in geometry, you know, one that reaches into infinity. And because we cannot see the end--we also cannot see how it changes. And it is very odd by those who see the changes--who dream, who will not give up--are called idealists...and those who see only the circle we call them the "realists"!

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Dream, Giving Up, Circles

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

• 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

  Dream, Children, Men

• 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

• 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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