The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

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

I was born black and female.

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

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.

I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific. Universality, I think, emerges from truthful identity of what is.