This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn't seem… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
Men continue to misinterpret the second-rate status of women as implying a privileged status for themselves; heterosexuals think the same way about… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
I'm just tired of hearing about God all the time. What has He got to do with anything?... I'm not going to… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
It's dangerous, son.' 'What's dangerous?' 'When a man goes outside his house to look for peace. — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
If, by some miracle, women should not ever utter a single protest against their condition, there would still exist among men those… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
Big Walter used to say, he'd get right wet in the eyes sometimes, lean his head back with the water standing in… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“[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 Image
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 Image
Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better. — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image