Raisin Act 1
“To become queen of the Nile!”
Beneatha - she has just put on the traditional African clothing Asagai gave her
"In my mother's house, there is still God."
Beneatha - after being corrected for her mouthiness by Mama
“She went out and bought you a house!”
Mama - to Travis and family
"Ain't it something how bad these here white folks is getting here in Chicago!"
Mrs. Johnson
"Isn't there something wrong in a house - in a world - where all dreams, good and bad, must depend on the death of a man?"
Asagai
“Yes’m . . . ten thousand dollars.”
Travis - Mama has just opened the check and expresses disbelief at the amount
"He [Mr. Younger, Sr] was a fine man - just couldn't never catch up with his dreams, that's all."
Mama - talking to Ruth after Walter's exit
“In my heart of hearts - I AM MUCH WARRIOR!”
Walter - with Beneatha's music and dress
"For the happiness of all concerned that our Negro families are happier when they live in their own communities."
Mr. Linder
"I'll strap my baby on my back if I have to and scrub all the floors in America and wash all the sheets in America if I have to - but we got to MOVE!"
Ruth
“He makes me sick to my stomach!
Ruth - she feels disgusted with Walter who does not want to speak to her about her “news”
"You wear it well ... very well ... mutilated hair and all."
Asagai - talking to Beneatha
"Man, I'm a volcano ... I am a giant surrounded by ants!"
Walter - to George
"Whatever you want to be - Yessir! You just name it son and I will hand you the world!"
Walter
"Well, we are all dead now. All the talk about dreams and sunlight that goes on in this house. It's all dead now."
Beneatha
“Man say to his woman, I got me a dream. His woman say, Eat your eggs.”
Walter – in the morning about the liquor store using the inheritance
"Sometimes it's like I can see the future stretched out in front of me - just plain as day ... a big, looming blank space - full of nothing."
Walter - when Mama says no about the liquor store deposit
"Man, I sure don't feel like whipping nobody today!"
Ruth
"So you butchered up a dream of mine - you - who always talkin' about your children's dreams..."
Walter - to Mama after news of spending money on the house in Clybourne Park
"We don't want to make no trouble for nobody and fight no causes, and we'll will try to be good neighbors."
Walter
"Once upon a time freedom used to be life – not it’s money."
Mama - she expresses her unhappiness with Walter giving money so much importance
“For a woman it should be enough.”
Asagai - revealing his beliefs about a woman's place in the world
"Let's face it baby, your heritage is nothing but a bunch of raggedy-assed spirituals and some grass huts!"
George - mocking Beneatha
"When a cat take off with your money he don't leave a road map."
Bobo
"... like a raisin in the sun"
Langston Hughes