Lorraine Hansberry
Lorraine Hansberry
Lorraine Vivian Hansberrywas an American playwright and writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth19 May 1930
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
account hills measure starts sure valleys wherever
When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right...Make sure you done take into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got wherever he is.
afraid awhile sit
Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.
black children dreams fit god man seems
Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams -- but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.
struggle giving doubt
Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually -- without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts? This is what I puzzle about.
african-american black female
I was born black and female.
forever way revolution
A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed are by their nature (i.e., oppressed) forever in ferment and agitation against their condition and what they understand to be their oppressors. If not by overt rebellion or revolution, then in the thousand and one ways they will devise with and without consciousness to alter their condition
writing age balls
Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
eggs firsts sun
I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!" "Finish your eggs first.
pieces protest
Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
ignorance roots feminist
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 roots not only social ignorance, but a philosophically active anti-feminist dogma.
stupidity looks world
I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
stars destiny thinking
I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.
struggle thinking race
I think that the glorious thing about the human race is that it does change the world -- constantly. The world or 'life' may seem to more often overwhelm the human being's capacity for struggling against being overwhelmed which is remarkable and exhilarating.
women brain intelligence
The grim possibility is that she who 'hides her brains' will, more than likely, end up with a mate who is only equal to a woman with 'hidden brains' or none at all.