All Lorraine Hansberry Quotes
- It is difficult for the American mind to adjust to the realization that the Rhetts and the Scarletts were as much monsters as the keepers… Adjust
- There is always something left to love. And if you haven't learned that, you ain't learned nothing. Always Something
- What you ain't never understood is that I ain't got nothing, don't own nothing, ain't never really wanted nothing that wasn't for you. There ain't… Dream
- Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest. Apart
- That's what being eccentric means--being natural. Eccentric
- There may be women to emerge who will be able to formulate a new and possible concept that homosexual persecution and condemnation has at its… Able
- I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world! Final
- Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it's money. I guess the world really do change. Change
- Big Walter used to say, he'd get right wet in the eyes sometimes, lean his head back with the water standing in his eyes and… Big
- Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women Any
- Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually -- without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts?… Body
- I was born black and female. African American
- I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care. All
- Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace? Hear
- One for whom bread- food- is not enough. Bread
- I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love. Beautiful
- Everybody talking 'bout heaven ain't going there! Bout
- Never be afraid to sit a while and think. Afraid
- A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of… Challenge
- The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. Acceptance