A Raisin in the Sun - Acts I-III- Quote Identification

"God is just one idea I don't accept."

Beneatha

"Love him? There is nothing left to love."

Beneatha

"No. I sound like a human being who just had her future taken right out of her hands."

Beneatha

"You didn't tell us what Alaiyo means... for all I know, you might be calling me Little Idiot or something..."

Beneatha

"... you are a disgrace to your father's memory."

Mama

"But whether I go into business selling it to 'em is, and I don't want that on my ledger this late in life."

Mama

"He finally come into his manhood today, didn't he? Kind of like a rainbow after the rain."

Mama

"Lord have mercy, baby. You done gone and bought your grandmother a hat?"

Mama

"Now - you say after me, in my mother's house there is still God."

Mama

"Well, I always wanted me a garden like I used to see sometimes at the back of the houses down home."

Mama

"Why you got to flit so from one thing to another, baby?"

Mama

"I'll strap my baby on my back if I have to and scrub all the floors in America... if I have to - but we got to move..."

Ruth

"Oh, let him go on out and drink himself to death! He makes me sick to my stomach!"

Ruth

"What else can I give you, Walter Lee Younger?"

Ruth

"Could I maybe go carry some groceries in front of the supermarket for a little while after school then?"

Travis

"... we have all thought about your offer and we have decided to move into our house because my father - my father - he earned it."

Walter Lee

"Damn my eggs... damn all the eggs that ever was!"

Walter Lee

"Just tell me, what it is you want to be - and you'll be it... You just name it, son... and I hand you the world!"

Walter Lee

"So you butchered up a dream of mine - you - who always talking 'bout your children's dreams..."

Walter Lee

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

Walter Lee