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

That's what being eccentric means — being natural.

I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality

Mama, you don’t understand. It’s all a matter of ideas, and God is just one idea I don’t acept. It’s not important. I am not going out and commit crimes or be immoral because I don’t believe in God. I don’t even think about it. It’s just that I get so tired of Him getting credit for all the things the human race achieves through its own stubborn effort. There simply is no God! There is only Man, and it’s he who makes miracles!

"In my mother's house there is still God."
Act 1, Scene 1 ~ A Raisin in the Sun