That's what being eccentric means--being natural.

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

I'm just tired of hearing about God all the time. What has He got to do with anything?... I'm not going to be immoral or commit crimes because I don't believe. I don't even think about that. I just get so tired of Him getting the credit for things the human race achieves through its own effort. Now, there simply is no God. There's only man. And it's he who makes miracles.

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 think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.

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

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