A Raisin in the Sun (1961)

Ivan Dixon: Joseph Asagai

Quotes 

• Beneatha Younger : Will you call me Monday?

  Asagai : Of course. We have a great deal to talk about, you and I. I mean about identity and all that. And time.

  Beneatha Younger : Time?

  Asagai : How much time one needs to know what one feels.

  Beneatha Younger : You see? You never understood. More than one feeling can exist between a man and a woman. At least there should be.

  Asagai : Between a man and woman, there need be only one kind of feeling. And I have that for you. Now even, right this moment.

  Beneatha Younger : I know, and it just won't do. I can find that anyplace.

  Asagai : It should be enough.

  Beneatha Younger : Because that's what it says in all the novels that men write. But it isn't. Go ahead and laugh, but I'm not interested in being someone's little episode in America, or one of them. It's real funny, huh?

  Asagai : It's just that every American woman I have ever met has always said that to me. In this, you are all the same. And the same speech too.

  Beneatha Younger : Yuk, yuk, yuk.

  Asagai : It's how you can tell that the world's most liberated woman isn't liberated at all. You all talk about it too much.

• Asagai : Is there something wrong?

  Beneatha Younger : We've all got acute ghetto-itis.

• Asagai : You wear it well, very well, mutilated hair and all.

  Beneatha Younger : My hair, what's wrong with my hair?

  Asagai : Were you born with it like that?

  Beneatha Younger : No, of course not.