“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.”

“Trying to please everybody is what you'll soon get tired of, because as time goes on, those you're pleasing will get tired of you.”

“Nobody does nothing. Everybody does something, sometimes nothing is something in the idle man's world.”

“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 true ruler does not rule others, he rules himself.”

“The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.”

“He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.”

“Write if you will: but write about the world as it is and as you think it ought to be and must beif there is to be a world. Write about all the things that men have written about since the beginnin...”