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God knows there was plenty wrong with Walter Younger—hard-headed, mean, kind of wild with women—plenty wrong with him. But he sure loved his children.
“Seem like God didn’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams—but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worth while.”
Well, little boys’ hides ain’t as tough as Southside roaches.
I’m afraid they need more salvation from the British and the French.
In my time we was worried about not being lynched and getting to the North if we could and how to stay alive and still have a pinch of dignity too … Now here come you and Beneatha—talking ’bout things we ain’t never even thought about hardly, me and your daddy.
we will hear all about the great Ashanti empires; the great Songhay civilizations; and the great sculpture of Bénin—and then some poetry in the Bantu— and the whole monologue will end with the word heritage!
Why you always trying to give me something to eat? RUTH (Standing and looking at him helplessly) What else can I give you, Walter Lee Younger?
“NEGROES INVADE CLYBOURNE PARK—BOMBED!”
for the happiness of all concerned that our Negro families are happier when they live in their own communities.
that’s the way the crackers crumble.
When a cat take off with your money he don’t leave you no road maps!
Independence and then what? What about all the crooks and thieves and just plain idiots who will come into power and steal and plunder the same as before—only now they will be black and do it in the name of the new Independence—WHAT ABOUT THEM?! ASAGAI That will be the problem for another time. First we must get there.
Then isn’t there something wrong in a house—in a world—where all dreams, good or bad, must depend on the death of a man?
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 learning—because that ain’t the time at all. It’s when he’s at his lowest and can’t believe in hisself ’cause the world done whipped him so! When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right, child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.
