Lorraine Hansberry Quotes

There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.

Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.

Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?

I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.

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.

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.

That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.

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