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.

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

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.

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

[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]

It only takes one voice to give others the chance to see possibilities.

Reason with most people means their own opinions.

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous.

This is what it's like to get old: you still feel 19, except your knees hurt...

Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible.

Don't be so glued to what you planned that you can't change it.

To be free. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world.

You should tell her how nice her outfit is because her outfit is her choice whereas her face isn't.

Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.