There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing. Have you cried for that boy today? I don't mean for yourself and for the family 'cause we lost the money. I mean… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
“Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When he’s done good and made things easy for everybody? That ain’t the time at all. It’s when he’s at his lowest……and he can’t believe in himself… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I will be a great man...I mean perhaps I will hold on to the substance of truth and find my way always with… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share
This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn't seem to give… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share
I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share
“[Beneatha Younger:]... He said everybody ought to learn how to sit down and hate each other with good Chrisitan fellowship. [excerpt from Act II,… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share
You don't have to go to the kings and queens of the earth - I think the Greeks and Elizabethans did this because it… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share
[T]here is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little picture -- in front… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share
I feel that women - without wishing to foster any strict separatist notions, homo or hetero - indeed have a need for their own… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share
I happen to believe that most people - and this is where I differ from many of my contemporaries, or at least as they… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share
Men continue to misinterpret the second-rate status of women as implying a privileged status for themselves; heterosexuals think the same way about homosexuals; gentiles… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share
I don't want to have anyone else to do my housework. I've always done it myself. I believe you should do it yourself. I… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share
I'm just tired of hearing about God all the time. What has He got to do with anything?... I'm not going to be immoral… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share
