Feminism Quotes by Lorraine Hansberry

One for whom bread- food- is not enough.

— Lorraine Hansberry

“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

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

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

“[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

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

Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.

— Lorraine Hansberry

[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

I feel that women - without wishing to foster any strict separatist notions, homo or hetero - indeed have a need for their own…

— Lorraine Hansberry

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

Everybody talking 'bout heaven ain't going there!

— Lorraine Hansberry

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

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

I was born black and female.

— Lorraine Hansberry

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