13 Lorraine Hansberry Quotes for You to Enjoy

Lorraine Hansberry

American Playwright

Born: May 19, 1930

Died: Jan 12, 1965

Men Myself Own Time Women You

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The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. Lorraine Hansberry

You Lonely Must Exceptional Also Make Makes Inevitably Which Thing

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general. Lorraine Hansberry

Loneliness Woman People Challenge Men Own Herself Willing Runs General Risk More Potential Pursue Interesting Much Who Exposure Her

Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile. Lorraine Hansberry

God Dreams Man Black Nothing Worthwhile See Seem Give Seems He Like Make Fit Did Children Them Us

I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care. Lorraine Hansberry

Care Too Much Energy Too About Takes Much

The problem in the world is the oppression of man by man; it this which threatens existence. Lorraine Hansberry

Man Oppression Problem World Threatens Existence Which

I think it is about time that equipped women began to take on some of the ethical questions which a male-dominated culture has produced and dissect and analyze them quite to pieces in a serious fashion. It is time that 'half the human race' had something to say about the nature of its existence. Lorraine Hansberry

Time Fashion Nature Culture Women Half Think Analyze Say Some About Something Take Had Pieces Equipped Existence Questions Began Quite Human Which Race Them Ethical Produced Human Race Serious Dissect

I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality. Lorraine Hansberry

I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love. Therefore, since I have known all of these things, I have found them to be reason enough - and I wish to live. Moreover, because this is so, I wish others to live for generations and generations and generations and generations. Lorraine Hansberry

The why of why we are here is an intrigue for adolescents; the how is what must command the living. Lorraine Hansberry

Living Intrigue Must Adolescent How Command Why Here

If, by some miracle, women should not ever utter a single protest against their condition, there would still exist among men those who could not endure in peace until her liberation had been achieved. Lorraine Hansberry

Peace Women Men Single Liberation Those Would Some Miracle Could Had Until Protest Still Been Condition Exist Achieved Endure Against Should Who Ever Among Utter Her

Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better. Lorraine Hansberry

Better Sometimes See Idealists Well Very Children Even Things

Mine is, after all, the generation that had come to maturity drinking in the forebodings of the Silones, Koestlers, and Richard Wrights. It had left us ill-prepared for decisions that had to be made in our own time about Algeria, Birmingham, or the Bay of Pigs. Lorraine Hansberry

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