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
believe tired men
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.
believe thinking interesting
I happen to believe that most people -- and this is where I differ from many of my contemporaries, or at least as they express themselves -- I think that virtually every human being is dramatically interesting. Not only is he dramatically interesting, he is a creature of stature whoever he is ...
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.
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.
afraid awhile sit
Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.
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.
love
There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.
groups oppressed
Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
caring care too-much
I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
men violence he-man
Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?
beautiful wish
I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love.
talking heaven
Everybody talking 'bout heaven ain't going there!
mean calling littles
Beneatha: You didn't tell us what Alaiyo means... for all I know, you might be calling me Little Idiot or something... ... Asagai: It means... it means One for Whom Bread--Food--Is Not Enough.
men curiosity earth
When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.