“If that guy don't look like the loneliest thing ever. And it ain't because he's turned his back on the world. With him, everybody's happy to see him coming, but no one's sorry to see him go. And anybody who catches sight of him is bound to step aside on account of the intense scent he's got about him.”

“As he lay down, a slight sigh spilled from his thin lips. Most likely it was just his chest wound having its say. Of course, no one else would ever know for sure. D's sorrow, his joy, and his pain belonged to him alone.”

“Impossible!' the professor said as he gazed at D in utter disbelief. He realized something for the first time - the young man before him was an entirely different form of life from himself.'This just can't be,' he stammered. 'I used the Noble's secret...to make a new race...' 'You failed', the the voice said. 'There's only ever been one success.”

“Transient guests are we.”

“Awe becomes simple fear all too easily. And when it does, what does that leave but hatred?”

“Beneatha: Love him? There is nothing left to love.Mama: There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing. (Looking at her) 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 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.”

“An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening!”