The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. - Lorraine Hansberry

TSHEMBE You thought! You thought because I am a black man I have answers that are deep and pure. I do not!!

Beneatha: You didn't tell us what Alaiyo means... for all I know, you might be calling me Little Idiot or something...
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Asagai: It means... it means One for Whom Bread — Food — Is Not Enough.

[I am] A fool who believes that death is waste and love is sweet and that the earth turns and men change every day and that rivers run and that people wanna be better than they are and that flowers smell good and that I hurt terribly today, and that hurt is desperation and desperation is — energy and energy can move things...