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

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 want to fly! I want to touch the sun!" "Finish your eggs first.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

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.

Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.

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