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
thinking disarming
American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
dream children men
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 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.
dream children eye
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 say, 'Seem like God didn't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worth while.'
once-upon-a-time world used
Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it's money. I guess the world really do change.
stupidity looks world
I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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.
dream holding-on wanted
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 nothing as precious to me...There ain't nothing worth holding on to, money, dreams, nothing else--
son men house
It's dangerous, son.' 'What's dangerous?' 'When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.
bread enough
One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
writing age balls
Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
dream giving-up circles
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 see the end--we also cannot see how it changes. And it is very odd by those who see the changes--who dream, who will not give up--are called idealists...and those who see only the circle we call them the "realists"!
thinking circles littles
[T]here is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little picture -- in front of us -- our own little mirage that we think is the future.
justice mind buchenwald
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 of Buchenwald-they just dressed more attractively.