"When I used to read fairy tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one! There ought... to be a book written about me, that there ought! And when I grow up, I'll write one--but I'm grown up now," she added in a sorrowful tone: "At least there's no room to grow up any more here."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must ru...n at least twice as fast as that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I fail, it is difficult to believe that it matters. Poetry runs in our veins, and over the centuries will flower now here, now ...there. If it does not come from my pen it will come from another's.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
MAMA: Son--how come you talk so much 'bout money? WALTER: Because it is life, Mama!... MAMA: Oh--So now it's life. Money is life. Once upon a time freedom used to be life--now it's money. I guess the world really do change ... WALTER: No--it was always money, Mama. We just didn't know about it. MAMA: No ... something has changed. You something new, boy. 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. You ain't satisfied or proud of nothing we done. I mean that you had a home; that we kept you out of trouble till you was grown; that you don't have to ride to work on the back of nobody's streetcar--You my children--but how different we done become.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you've ever been without money, or food, something very strange happens when you get a bit of money, a kind of madness. You don...'t care. You can't remember that you had no money before, that the money will be gone. You can remember nothing but that there is the money for which you have been suffering. Now here it is. A lust takes hold of you. You see food in the windows. In imagination you eat hugely; you taste a thousand meals. You look in windows. Colors are brighter; you buy something to dress up in. An excitement takes hold of you. You know it is suicide but you can't help it. You must have food, dainty, splendid food and a bright hat so once again you feel blithe, rid of that ratty gnawing shame.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now here this, now here this. Reveille. I repeat, reveille. Attention all hands. Because another cigarette butt has been found in ...the container of the Captain's palm tree, there will be no movies again tonight. That is all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I felt less alone when I didn't know you yet: I was waiting for the other. I thought only of his strength and never of my weakness.... And now here you are, Orestes, it was you. I look at you and I see that we are two orphans.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When my old wife lived, upon This day she was both pantler, butler, cook,... Both dame and servant, welcomed all, served all, Would sing her song and dance her turn, now here At upper end o'the table, now i'the middle, On his shoulder, and his, her face afire With labor, and the thing she took to quench it She would to each one sip.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Responsibility for political conditions thousands of miles away can no longer be avoided, I think, by this great Nation. Certainly... I don't want to live to see another war. As I have said, the world is smaller, smaller every year. The United States now exerts a tremendous influence in the cause of peace. What we people over here are thinking and talking about is in the interest of peace because it is known all over the world. The slightest remark in either House of Congress is known all over the world the following day. We will continue to exert that influence only if we are willing to share in the responsibility of keeping the peace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »