Is money money or isn't money money. Everybody who earns it and spends it every day in order to live knows... that money is money, anybody who votes it to be gathered in as taxes knows money is not money. That is what makes everybody go crazy.... When you earn money and spend money every day anybody can know the difference between a million and three. But when you vote money away there really is not any difference between a million and three.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The system was breaking down. The one who had wandered alone past so many happenings and events began to feel, backing up along th...e primal vein that led to his center, the beginning of hiccup that would, if left to gather, explode the center to the extremities of life, the suburbs through which one makes one's way to where the country is.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... every woman's organization recognizes that reformers are far more common than feminists, that the passion to look after your f...ellow man, and especially woman, to do good to her in your way is far more common than the desire to put into every one's hand the power to look after themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very famil...iar and intimate with them and finally they become tame again.... No, it is more like being in a hotel room in Hoboken let us say, and just enough money in one's pocket for another meal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If, for instance, a man asserts the value of individual liberty over the merely political commonweal, his neighbor still tolerates... him,... sometimes even sustains him, but never the State. Its officer, as a living man, may have human virtues and a thought in his brain, but as the tool of an institution, a jailor or constable it may be, he is not a whit superior to his prison key or his staff. Herein is the tragedy: that men doing outrage to their proper natures, even those called wise and good, lend themselves to perform the office of inferior and brutal ones. Hence come war and slavery in; and what else may not come in by this opening? But certainly there are modes by which a man may put bread in his mouth which will not prejudice him as a companion and neighbor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They commonly celebrate those beaches only which have a hotel on them, not those which have a humane house alone. But I wished to ...see that seashore where man's works are wrecks; to put up at the true Atlantic House, where the ocean is land-lord as well as sea-lord, and comes ashore without a wharf for the landing; where the crumbling land is the only invalid, or at best is but dry land, and that is all you can say of it.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 »
A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is neve...r complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that w...e should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are. We are constantly making for them, being by nature winged creatures and honey-gatherers of the spirit; there is one thing alone we really care about from the heart--"bringing something home."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is my home, the country where my heart is; Here are my hopes, my dreams, my holy shrine;... But other hearts in other lands are beating With hopes and dreams as true and high as mine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »