RITS

"When the world gets ugly enough- a women will do anything for her family."

Mama

"Well- we are dead now. All the talk about dreams and sunlight that goes on in this house. It's all dead now."

Beneatha

"Once upon a time freedom used to be life- now it's money"

Mama

"There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing"

Mama

"Son- I come from 5 generations of people who was slaves and sharecroppers- but ain't nobody in my family never let nobody pay 'em no money that was a way of telling us we wasn't fit to walk the earth. We ain't never been that poor. We ain't never been that- dead inside"

Mama

"Seem like God didn't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams- but he did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile"

Mama

"You just can't force people to change their hearts, son."

Linder

"In my mother's house there is still God."

Beneatha

"Then isn't there something wrong in a house- in a world- where all dreams, good and bad, must depend on the death of a man?"

Asagai

"It's simple. You read books- to learn facts- to get grades- to pass the course- to get a degree. That's all- is has nothing to do with thoughts."

George

"We feel that most of the trouble in this world, when you come right down to it, most of the trouble exists because people just don't sit down and talk to each other."

Linder

"I just seen my family falling apart today... Just falling to pieces in front of my eyes... We couldn't of gone in like we was today."

Mama

"When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right, child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to whenever he is."

Mama

"He finally come into his manhood today, didn't he? Kind of like a rainbow after the rain."

Mama

"Yes- just look at what the New World hath wrought!... Just look!"

Beneatha

"Lord ever since I was a little girl, I always remembers people saying, 'Lena-Lena Eggleston, you aims too high all the time."

Mama

"Mama, you know it's all divided up. Life is. Sure enough. Between the talkers and the token."

Walter

"There ain't nothin' but taking in this world, and he who takes most is smartest."

Walter

"The line between asking and Justin accepting when the time comes is big and wide..."

Walter

"You jus name it son, and I hand you the world!"

Walter

"We have decided to move into our house because my father- my father- he earned it for us brick by brick"

Walter

"Well I always wanted me a garden like I used to see sometimes at the back of the houses. The back of the houses down home. The plant is close as I ever got to having one."

Mama

"It isn't a circle- it is simply a long line- likes geometry, you know, one that reaches into infinity. And because we cannot see the end- we also cannot see how it changes... Those who see the changes- who dream, who will not give up- are called idealists...and those who see the circle we call the realists."

Asagai

"There ain't nothing worth holding on to, money, dreams, nothing else- if it means- if it means it's going to destroy my boy."

Mama

"So you butchered up a dream of mine- you- who always talking 'bout your children's dreams."

Walter

"The overwhelming majority of our people out there feel that people get along better, take more of a common interest in the life of the community, they share a common background."

Linder

"This is just what is wrong with the colored women in this world...don't understand about building their men up making 'em feel like they somebody. Like they can do something."

Walter

"Lord if this little old plant don't get more sum than its been getting it ain't never going to see spring again."

Mama

"Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't through learning- because that ain't the time at all. It's when he's at his lowest and can't believe hisself 'cause the world done whipped him so!"

Mama

"That's it. There you are. Man say his to his woman: I got me a dream. His woman say: eat your eggs. Man: I got to take hold of this here world, baby! And woman will say: eat your eggs and go to work. Man say: i got to change my life, I'm choking to death, baby! And his woman say: your eggs is getting cold."

Walter

"... Assimilation is so popular in your country."

Asagai

"When the world gets ugly enough- a women will do anything for her family."

Mama

"Well- we are dead now. All the talk about dreams and sunlight that goes on in this house. It's all dead now."

Beneatha

"Once upon a time freedom used to be life- now it's money"

Mama

"There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing"

Mama

"Son- I come from 5 generations of people who was slaves and sharecroppers- but ain't nobody in my family never let nobody pay 'em no money that was a way of telling us we wasn't fit to walk the earth. We ain't never been that poor. We ain't never been that- dead inside"

Mama

"Seem like God didn't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams- but he did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile"

Mama

"You just can't force people to change their hearts, son."

Linder

"In my mother's house there is still God."

Beneatha

"Then isn't there something wrong in a house- in a world- where all dreams, good and bad, must depend on the death of a man?"

asagai

"It's simple. You read books- to learn facts- to get grades- to pass the course- to get a degree. That's all- is has nothing to do with thoughts."

George

"We feel that most of the trouble in this world, when you come right down to it, most of the trouble exists because people just don't sit down and talk to each other."

Linder

"I just seen my family falling apart today... Just falling to pieces in front of my eyes... We couldn't of gone in like we was today."

Mama

"When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right, child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to whenever he is."

Mama

"He finally come into his manhood today, didn't he? Kind of like a rainbow after the rain."

Mama

"Yes- just look at what the New World hath wrought!... Just look!"

Beneatha

"Lord ever since I was a little girl, I always remembers people saying, 'Lena-Lena Eggleston, you aims too high all the time."

Mama

"Mama, you know it's all divided up. Life is. Sure enough. Between the talkers and the token."

Walter

"There ain't nothin' but taking in this world, and he who takes most is smartest."

Walter

"The line between asking and Justin accepting when the time comes is big and wide..."

Walter

"You jus name it son, and I hand you the world!"

Walter

"We have decided to move into our house because my father- my father- he earned it for us brick by brick"

Walter

"Well I always wanted me a garden like I used to see sometimes at the back of the houses. The back of the houses down home. The plant is close as I ever got to having one."

Mama

"It isn't a circle- it is simply a long line- likes geometry, you know, one that reaches into infinity. And because we cannot see the end- we also cannot see how it changes... Those who see the changes- who dream, who will not give up- are called idealists...and those who see the circle we call the realists."

Asagai

"There ain't nothing worth holding on to, money, dreams, nothing else- if it means- if it means it's going to destroy my boy."

Mama

"So you butchered up a dream of mine- you- who always talking 'bout your children's dreams."

Walter

"The overwhelming majority of our people out there feel that people get along better, take more of a common interest in the life of the community, they share a common background."

Lindner

"This is just what is wrong with the colored women in this world...don't understand about building their men up making 'em feel like they somebody. Like they can do something."

Walter

"Lord if this little old plant don't get more sum than its been getting it ain't never going to see spring again."

Mama

"Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't through learning- because that ain't the time at all. It's when he's at his lowest and can't believe hisself 'cause the world done whipped him so!"

Mama

"That's it. There you are. Man say his to his woman: I got me a dream. His woman say: eat your eggs. Man: I got to take hold of this here world, baby! And woman will say: eat your eggs and go to work. Man say: i got to change my life, I'm choking to death, baby! And his woman say: your eggs is getting cold."

walter

"... Assimilation is so popular in your country."

Asagai