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.

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.

[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]

Criticisms of a society filled with fools have no power in them to bother the sage that has emerged from the agonizing fire of misery.

How accommodating love is

There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.

Tilapia have often been represented as the aquatic chicken, and it's perfectly justified.

I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.

Every day is an opportunity to fall or hurt yourself.

The language of truth is simple.

I love when people in culture show up on fictional TV shows. I don't mind at all being a name from the '90s.

I will take questions from the guys, but from the girls I want telephone numbers.

Dogs have a lot to communicate to a person willing to listen.