Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When he’s done good and made things easy for everybody? That ain’t the time at all. I… - Lorraine Hansberry

"It isn't as if we got up today and said, "What can we do to irritate America?" It's because, since 1619, Negroes have tried every method of communication, of transformation of their situation, from petition to the vote — everything — we've tried it all; there isn't anything that hasn't been exhausted."

CHARLIE (Incredulous) Matoseh, I don’t believe it — that you can sit here, under this very roof where you learned to read and write — and deny the dedication of those who came here — TSHEMBE (Utter dismissal) I do not deny it. It is simply that the conscience, such as it is, of imperialism is … irrelevant.

In the twentieth century men everywhere like to breathe; and the Negro citizen still cannot, you see, breathe.