Raisin in the Sun Notes

“Here I am a giant – surrounded by ants! Ants who can’t even understand what it is the giant is talking about.”

• Mama
• Walter
• Beneatha
• Ruth

“... and forgive me for ever wanting to be anything at all ... forgive me, forgive me, forgive me"

• Mama
• Walter
• Beneatha
• Ruth

“Once upon a time freedom used to be life ..."

• Mama
• Walter
• Beneatha
• Ruth

"It's how you can be sure the world's most liberated women are not liberated at all. You all talk about it too much."

• Mama
• Walter
• Beneatha
• Asagai

"Man say to his woman: I got me a dream. His woman say: Eat your eggs."

• Mama
• Walter
• Beneatha
• Ruth

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

• Mama
• Walter
• Beneatha
• Asagai

"That money is made out of my father's flesh ..."

• Mama
• Walter
• Beneatha
• Asagai

"There simply is no blasted God - there is only man and it is he who makes miracles."

• Mama
• Walter
• Beneatha
• Ruth

"Sometimes it is hard to let the future begin"

• Mama
• Walter
• Beneatha
• Asagai

"... we all tied up in a race of people that don't know how to do nothing but moan, pray and have babies!"

• Mama
• Walter
• Beneatha
• Ruth