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

Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it's money. I guess the world really do change.

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

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 look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!

Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually -- without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts? This is what I puzzle about.

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.