When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right, chil… - Lorraine Hansberry

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When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right, child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.

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Lorraine Hansberry (19 May 1930 – 12 January 1965) was an American playwright.

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Alternative Names: Lorraine Vivian Hansberry

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BENEATHA: Why not? It makes just as much sense as disliking people ’cause they are poor, and lots of people do that.

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Yes, Lena.

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. It’s when he’s at his lowest……and he can’t believe in himself because the world’s whipped him so!

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