A Raisin in the Sun Quotes

Walter -

"That is just what is wrong with the colored woman in this world...Don't understand about building their men up and making them feel like they somebody." (Act 1 Scene 1)

"Your daddy's gonna make a transaction...a business transaction that's going to change our lives. (Act 2 Scene 2)

"I didn't make this world! It was give to me this way!" (Act 3)

Mama -

"But he sure loved his children. Always wanted them to have something-be something." (Act 1 Scene 1)

"You say after me, in my mother's house there is still God." (Act 1 Scene 1)

"Money is life. Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it's money." (Act 1 Scene 2)

"It's just a plain little old house-but it's made good and solid-and it will be ours." (Act 2 Scene 1)

"When it gets like that in life-you just got to do something different, push on and out and do something bigger." (Act 2 Scene 1)

"Working and working and working like somebody's old horse...killing himself...and you-you give it all away in a day." (Act 2 Scene 3)

Beneatha -

"He said everybody ought to learn how to sit down and hate each other with good Christian fellowship." (Act 2 Scene 3)

Joseph Asagai -

"Assimilationism is so popular in your country." (Act 1 Scene 2)