[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'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
Mine is, after all, the generation that had come to maturity drinking in the forebodings of the Silones, Koestlers, and Richard Wrights.… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing. Have you cried for that… — 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
Daddy felt that this country was hopeless in its treatment of Negroes. So he became a refugee from America. He bought a… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I can see the future stretched out in front of me - just as plain as day. The future hanging over… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it's money. I guess the world really do change. — 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… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
I think it is about time that equipped women began to take on some of the ethical questions which a male-dominated culture… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
“Beneatha: Love him? There is nothing left to love. Mama: There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned… — 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