Lorraine Hansberry

One for whom bread- food- is not enough.

— Lorraine Hansberry

“Perhaps I will be a great man...I mean perhaps I will hold on to the substance of truth and find my way…

— Lorraine Hansberry

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

I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough…

— Lorraine Hansberry

“[Beneatha Younger:]... He said everybody ought to learn how to sit down and hate each other with good Chrisitan fellowship. [excerpt from…

— Lorraine Hansberry

You don't have to go to the kings and queens of the earth - I think the Greeks and Elizabethans did this…

— Lorraine Hansberry

Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.

— Lorraine Hansberry

[T]here is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little picture --…

— Lorraine Hansberry

I feel that women - without wishing to foster any strict separatist notions, homo or hetero - indeed have a need for…

— Lorraine Hansberry

I happen to believe that most people - and this is where I differ from many of my contemporaries, or at least…

— Lorraine Hansberry

Everybody talking 'bout heaven ain't going there!

— Lorraine Hansberry

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

I don't want to have anyone else to do my housework. I've always done it myself. I believe you should do it…

— Lorraine Hansberry

I was born black and female.

— Lorraine Hansberry

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

Mine is, after all, the generation that had come to maturity drinking in the forebodings of the Silones, Koestlers, and Richard Wrights.…

— Lorraine Hansberry

The why of why we are here is an intrigue for adolescents; the how is what must command the living.

— Lorraine Hansberry

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

— Lorraine Hansberry

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

— Lorraine Hansberry

American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.

— Lorraine Hansberry

A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed…

— Lorraine Hansberry

When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of…

— Lorraine Hansberry

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

The problem in the world is the oppression of man by man; it this which threatens existence.

— Lorraine Hansberry

It isn't a circle--it is simply a long line--as in geometry, you know, one that reaches into infinity. And because we cannot…

— Lorraine Hansberry