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Oh, Walter! Oh, Walter! How’s your old man making out? I understand you all going to buy that big hotel on the Drive? Shrewd move. Your old man is all right, man. I mean he knows how to operate. I mean he thinks big, you know what I mean, I mean for a home, you know? But I think he’s kind of running out of ideas now. I’d like to talk to him. Listen, man, I got some plans that could turn this city upside down. I mean think like he does. Big. Invest big, gamble big, hell, lose big if you have to, you know what I mean. It’s hard to find a man on this whole Southside who understands my kind of thinking – you dig? Me and you ought to sit down and talk sometimes, man. Man, I got me some ideas…

Talking ‘bout life, Mama. You all always telling me to see life like it is. Well – I laid in there on my back today… and I figured it out. Life is just like it is. Who gets and who don’t get. Mama, you know it’s all divided up. Life is. Sure enough. Between the takers and the “tooken.” I’ve figured it out finally. Yeah. some of us always getting “tooken.” People like Willy Harris, they don’t never get “tooken.” And you know why the rest of us do? ‘Cause we all mixed up. Mixed up bad. We get to looking ‘round for the right and the wrong; and we worry about it and cry about it and stay up nights trying to figure out ‘bout the wrong and the right of things all the time… And all the time, man, them takers is out there operating, just taking and taking. Willy Harris? Shoot – Willy Harris don’t even count. He don’t even count in the big scheme of things. But I’ll say one thing for old Willy Harris… he’s taught me something. He’s taught me to keep my eye on what counts in this world. Yeah – Thanks, Willy!

“Rat trap” – yes, that’s all it is. I remember just as well the day me and Big Walter moved in here. Hadn’t been married but two weeks and wasn’t planning on living here no more than a year. We was going to set away, little by little, don’t you know, and buy a little place out in Morgan Park. We had even picked out the house. Looks right dumpy today. But Lord, child, you should know all the dreams I had ‘bout buying that house and fixing it up and making me a little garden in the back – And didn’t none of it happen.

I know it and I don't mind it sometimes... I want you to cut it out, see - the moody stuff, I mean. I don't like it. You're a nice looking girl... all over. That's all you need, honey, forget the atmosphere. Guys aren't going to go for the atmosphere - they're going to go for what they see. Be glad for that. Drop the Garbo routine. It doesn't go with you. As for myself, I want a nice - simple - sophisticated girl... not a poet - O.K.?

Lorraine Hansberry

Unseen Script Offers New Evidence of a Radical Lorraine Hansberry “We don’t understand Hansberry until we understand that she was reading Chesnutt, reading W.E.B. Du Bois, reading political history,” Browner said recently.

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