ASAGAI Yes! … (Smiling and lifting his arms playfully) Three hundred years later the African Prince rose up out of the seas and swept the maiden back across the middle passage over which her ancestors had come— BENEATHA (Unable to play) To—to Nigeria? ASAGAI Nigeria. Home. (Coming to her with genuine romantic flippancy) I will show you our mountains and our stars; and give you cool drinks from gourds and teach you the old songs and the ways of our people—and, in time, we will pretend that—(Very softly)—you have only been away for a day. Say that you’ll come (He swings her around and takes her
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Love how she is able to reflect and see things more clearly or rationally than most people! That she acknowledges her needs to sit down and think about things before she does things impulsively. Shows that she is the more rational one between her and her brother, who takes more risks that end up putting them at risk. If things had been up to her, she would have thought as an outsider - maybe not put as much money in. Very selfish of him. She wouldn't have made such a foolish mistake, or perhaps she only thinks that she wouldn't.
