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

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.

[Beneatha Younger:]... He said everybody ought to learn how to sit down and hate each other with good Chrisitan fellowship. [excerpt from Act II, Scene 3]

Between the Bible and the Holy Spirit, you have everything you need to grow spiritually. And the more you grow, the more God can use you.

Mortality, behold, and fear, What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones.

When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feelings, good feelings, ups and downs, highs and lows, that kind of thing.

May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second!

Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.

The biggest fight in my life is not in boxing. The biggest fight in my life is how to end poverty in my country.

Doing good is good for business.

I'd like to be my old self again but I'm still trying to find it

There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one?

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.