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

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn't seem to give an answer, we create one.

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.

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

Everybody talking 'bout heaven ain't going there!

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.