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
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.
children struggle mean
...Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non- violent.... They must harass, debate, petition, boycott, sing hymns, pray on steps--and shoot from their windows when the racists come cruising through their communities.... The acceptance of our condition is the only form of extremism which discredits us before our children [ellipses in source].
love inspiring dream
Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
believe writing thinking
I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific. Universality, I think, emerges from truthful identity of what is.
happiness inspiring success
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
running loneliness being-alone
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.
eye heart feelings
One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.
pieces protest
Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.