“I'm just tired of hearing about God all the time. What has He got to do with anything?... I'm not going to be immoral or commit crimes because I don't believe. I don't even think about that. I just...”

“Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When hes done good and made things easy for everybody? That aint the time at all. Its when hes at his lowestand he cant believe in hi...”

“A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men and people in general.”

“Cause sometimes it's hard to let the future begin!”

“MAMA: You must not dislike people cause they well off, honey.BENEATHA: Why not? It makes just as much sense as disliking people cause they are poor, and lots of people do that.”

“I know he's rich. He knows he's rich, too.”

“Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.”

“The only honest way to approach the question of whiteness and blackness is to start by accepting that these are arbitrary categories that were invented in the 17th and 18th century in order to just...”

“I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I never asked [James] Joyce not to mention Catholicism or the world of Dublin. Never. And I don't know why I should be ...”