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 intere… - Lorraine Hansberry

I wanted to be able to come here and speak with you on this occasion because you are young, gifted, and black…I, for one, can think of no more dynamic combination that a person might be. . . And that is why I say to you that, though it be a thrilling and marvelous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so, doubly dynamic — to be young, gifted, and black.

I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!

BENEATHA How can something that’s natural be eccentric? GEORGE That’s what being eccentric means — being natural.