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… — 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
