American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is. — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars. — 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… — 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 --… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
I think that the glorious thing about the human race is that it does change the world -- constantly. The world or… — 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
Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When they done good and made things easy for… — 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
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