~ Lorraine Hansberry Quotes ~

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Lorraine Hansberry Quotes


An African American playwright and author of political speeches, letters, and essays.
Lorraine Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an African American playwright and author of political speeches, letters, and essays. Her best known work, A Raisin in the Sun, was inspired by her family's legal battle against racially segregated housing laws in the Washington Park Subdivision of the South Side of Chicago during her childhood.

Here are some famous quotes by Lorraine Hansberry.

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.

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Children see things very well sometimes-and idealists even better.

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

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

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There 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.

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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.