A Raisin in the Sun Quotes

“It's dangerous, son."
"What's dangerous?"
"When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.”
― Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay

“You aimin' to go the full circle now? How long before I have to come get you up from the sidewalks? You got hurt and pain in you? Well, I used to know a man who knew how to live with his pain and make his hurt work for him. Your daddy died with dignity; there wasn't no bum in him. And he known some hurts in this life you ain't never even heard of!”
― Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay

“Then isn't this rather all a false funeral? Can't it help you to see that there is something wrong when all the dreams in this house-good or bad-had to depend on something that might never have happened if a man had not died? We always say at home: Accident was at the first and will be at the last a poor tree from which the fruits of life may bloom.”
― Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay