Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain’t through … - Lorraine Hansberry

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!

"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."

How we gets to the place where we scared to talk softness to each other.

Obviously, the most oppressed group of any oppressed group will be its women, who are twice oppressed. So I imagine that they react accordingly: as oppression makes people more militant, women become twice militant, because they are twice oppressed.