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List of Lorraine Hansberry Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 46 inspiring quotes by Lorraine Hansberry.

About Lorraine Hansberry

  • Born: May 19, 1930
  • Died: January 12, 1965
  • Occupation: Playwright
    • One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
    Bread Enough
    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.'
    Dream Children Eye
    Ball points belong to their age. they make everyone write alike.
    Writing Age Balls
    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--
    Dream Holding On Wanted
    Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
    Inspirational Children Acceptance
    American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as americans invariably think it is.
    Thinking Disarming
    [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.
    Thinking Circles Mirages
    Ah, i like the look of packing crates! a household in preparation for a journey! ... something full of the flow of life, do you understand? movement, progress...
    Moving Journey Preparation
    Everybody talking 'bout heaven ain't going there!
    Talking Heaven
    Mama - mama - i want so many things... i want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.
    Crazy Want Mama
    When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.
    Men Curiosity Earth
    Our southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
    Pieces Protest
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