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Lorraine Hansberry Quotes

Lorraine Hansberry quotes

American Playwright May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965

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I wish to live beacause life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love. Therefore, since I have known all of these things, I have found them to be reason enough and--I wish to live. Moreover, because this is so, I wish others to live for generations and generations and generations and generations. Lorraine Hansberry
Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't through learning-because that ain't the time at all...when you starts measuring somebody, measure him right, child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is. Lorraine Hansberry
Lorraine Hansberry quote: "There is always something left to love. And if you ain't..."
There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing. Lorraine Hansberry
You aimin' to go the full circle now? How long before I have to come get you up from the sidewalks? You got hurt and pain in you? Well, I used to know a man who knew how to live with his pain and make his hurt work for him. Your daddy died with dignity; there wasn't no bum in him. And he known some hurts in this life you ain't never even heard of! Lorraine Hansberry
Then isn't this rather all a false funeral? Can't it help you to see that there is something wrong when all the dreams in this house-good or bad-had to depend on something that might never have happened if a man had not died? We always say at home: Accident was at the first and will be at the last a poor tree from which the fruits of life may bloom. 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 be immoral or commit crimes because I don't believe. I don't even think about that. I just get so tired of Him getting the credit for things the human race achieves through its own effort. Now, there simply is no God. There's only man. And it's he who makes miracles. Lorraine Hansberry
Mama, you don’t understand. It’s all a matter of ideas, and God is just one idea I don’t acept. It’s not important. I an not going out and commit crimes or be immoral because I don’t believe in God. I don’t even think about it. It’s just that I get so tired of Him getting credit for all the things the human race achieves through its own stubborn effort. There simply is no God! There is only Man, and it’s he who makes miracles! Lorraine Hansberry
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. Lorraine Hansberry
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 Lorraine Hansberry
[Beneatha Younger:]... He said everybody ought to learn how to sit down and hate each other with good Chrisitan fellowship. [excerpt from Act II, Scene 3] Lorraine Hansberry
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 exposure to more interesting men - and people in general. Lorraine Hansberry
Lorraine Hansberry quote: "It's dangerous, son.' 'What's dangerous?' 'When a man goes..."
It's dangerous, son.' 'What's dangerous?' 'When a man goes outside his house to look for peace. Lorraine Hansberry
Lorraine Hansberry quote: "Mama--Mama--I want so many things... I want so many things..."
Mama--Mama--I want so many things... I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy... Lorraine Hansberry
Lorraine Hansberry quote: "Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?"
Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace? Lorraine Hansberry
Lorraine Hansberry quote: "Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even..."
Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better. Lorraine Hansberry

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