A Raisin in the Sun (1961)

Claudia McNeil: Lena Younger

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• Lena Younger : [sobbing]  Oh God, please, look down and give me strength!

• Lena Younger : Of course, you'll be a doctor, God willing.

  Beneatha Younger : God hasn't got a thing to do with it.

  Lena Younger : That just wasn't necessary.

  Beneatha Younger : Neither is God. I get sick of hearing about God all the time. I mean it. I'm just tired about hearing about God all the time. What has he got to do with anything? Does he pay tuition?

  Lena Younger : You about to get your fresh little jaw slapped.

  Ruth Younger : That's what she needs.

  Beneatha Younger : Why can't I say what I want to say, like everybody else?

  Lena Younger : Because it's not nice to talk like that. You wasn't raised that way. Me and your daddy got you and brother to church every Sunday.

  Beneatha Younger : You don't understand. It's all a matter of ideas, and God is one idea that I don't accept. Now it's not important. I'm not going to be immoral or commit crimes because I don't believe. I don't even think about that. I just get so tired of him taking the credit for things the human race achieves through its own effort. Now there simply is no God. There's only man. And it's he who makes miracles.

  Lena Younger : Now you say after me: In my mother's house there is still God. In my mother's house there is still God.

  Beneatha Younger : In my mother's house there is still God.

  Lena Younger : There's just some things we won't have around here, not long as I'm still head of this family.

  Beneatha Younger : Yes, ma'am.