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 they’re at their lowest and can’t believe in themself ‘cause the world done whipped them so! When you start measuring somebody, measure them right child, measure them right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys they come through before they got to where ever they is.
— Mama (A Raisin in the Sun)