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 he’s
at his lowest and can’t believe in hisself ’cause the world
done whipped him so! When you starts measuring
somebody, measure him right, child, measure him right.
Make sure you done taken into account what hills and
valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.

(Lorraine Hansbury, "A raisin in the sun")