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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

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life. Luigi Pirandello

Life Man Plants Value Own Live Living Every Above Give Beasts He True Knowing True Man Without Does How Sake His Sir Little Meaning Who Lives Level

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart. Luigi Pirandello

Heart Dignity Men Face Too Other Some Face-To-Face Only Unspeakable Know Well Sort Go Clothed Us Each Things

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him. Luigi Pirandello

Words Before Nothing Action Alive Latter Characters Follow Him Does Author Situations Which Them Really Suggest

I was born in Philadelphia, and I've tried to escape that city all my life. I end up writing plays that force me back to Philadelphia, at least psychologically if not physically. Lyle Kessler

Life Me Writing My Life Back All My Life Tried City Born Physically Force Least End Up Escape Psychologically Plays Philadelphia

The more you go to a theatre and the more you hear stories you aren't necessarily familiar with, the more open you become. Lynn Nottage

You Theatre Become More Open Go Hear Familiar Stories Necessarily

I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and some even crawl out of the dusty remote recesses of my imagination. Lynn Nottage

Sometimes Dinner Party Imagination Out Characters Dinner Party Find Some Varied Obscure Remote Historical Texts Articles Dusty Stories Conversations Crawl Places Newspaper Pop Many Even Lively

Women are standing up and leaning forward and asserting their power. Lynn Nottage

Women Power Leaning Women Are Up Standing Forward Standing Up Asserting

I like to go into a space, listen, absorb, and then interpret. Lynn Nottage

Space Absorb Like Go Listen Then Interpret

I'm a schizophrenic writer. Lynn Nottage

Schizophrenic Writer

I need a release from whatever I'm writing. Lynn Nottage

Writing Whatever Release Need

I've been asked a lot why didn't 'Ruined' go to Broadway. It was the most successful play that Manhattan Theatre Club has ever had in that particular space, and yet we couldn't find a home on Broadway. Lynn Nottage

Home Theatre Space Club Ruined Broadway Find Had Particular Most Go Been Lot Manhattan Asked Successful Why Ever Play

I am interested in people living in the margins of society, and I do have a mission to tell the stories of women of colour in particular. I feel we've been present throughout history, but our voices have been neglected. Lynn Nottage

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