“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.”

“The Murchisons are honest-to-God-real-foe-rich colored people, and the only people in the world who are more snobbish than rich white people are rich colored people. I though everybody knew that.”

“Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.”

“Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, "The Cookiepant...”

“The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn. The less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything...”