“Children see things very well sometimes — and idealists even better.”
Asagai to Beneatha, Act III
A Raisin in the Sun (1959)
Lorraine Hansberry fue una activista, dramaturga y escritora estadounidense, que participó en la lucha por la igualdad.[1]
Su obra más famosa, Un lunar en el sol , escrita en 1959, se inspiró en la batalla legal emprendida por su familia y en contra de las leyes de segregación racial en Chicago durante su infancia.
Hansberry inspiró la canción "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" de la cantante y pianista Nina Simone.
Fue nominada en los premios Premio Tony a la mejor obra y en los Premios WGA al drama estadounidense mejor escrito.
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“Children see things very well sometimes — and idealists even better.”
Asagai to Beneatha, Act III
A Raisin in the Sun (1959)
Fuente: To Be Young, Gifted and Black (1969), p. 137
“Don't get up. Just sit a while and think. Never be afraid to sit a while and think.”
Asagai to Beneatha, Act III
A Raisin in the Sun (1959)
“There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.”
Mama, Act III
A Raisin in the Sun (1959)
Contexto: There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing. Have you cried for that boy today? I don't mean for yourself and for the family 'cause we lost the money. I mean for him; what he's been through and what it done to him. 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 in hisself 'cause the world done whipped him so. 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 wherever he is.
Fuente: To Be Young, Gifted and Black (1969), p. 100
Contexto: I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful and that which is love. Therefore, since I have known all of these things, I have found them to be reason enough and — I wish to live. Moreover, because this is so, I wish others to live for generations and generations and generations.
Fuente: To Be Young, Gifted and Black (1969), p. 100
Contexto: I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful and that which is love. Therefore, since I have known all of these things, I have found them to be reason enough and — I wish to live. Moreover, because this is so, I wish others to live for generations and generations and generations.
“I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!"
"Finish your eggs first.”
Fuente: A Raisin in the Sun
“It's dangerous, son."
"What's dangerous?"
"When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.”
Fuente: A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay
“Mama--Mama--I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy…”
Fuente: A Raisin in the Sun
“DAMN MY EGGS! DAMN ALL THE EGGS THAT EVER WAS!" - Wilson”
A Raisin in the Sun
As quoted in Wild Women Talk Back : Audacious Advice for the Bedroom, Boardroom, and Beyond (2004) by Autumn Stephens, p. 15
“I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!”
Beneatha to Walter, Act III
A Raisin in the Sun (1959)