Quotes by Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry

…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].

Children

Mean

Struggle

[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.

Circles

Mirages

Thinking

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

Agitation

Forever

Groups

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.

Being Alone

Loneliness

Running

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…

Journey

Moving

Preparation

American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.

Disarming

Thinking

Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.

Age

Balls

Writing

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.

Calling

Littles

Mean

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.’

Children

Dream

Eye

Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most; when they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain’t through learning – because that ain’t the time at all… When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.

Children

Taken

Thinking

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Acceptance

African American

Age

Agitation

Balls

Beautiful

Being Alone

Believe

Black

Brain

Bread

Calling

Care

Caring

Children

Circles

Crazy

Curiosity

Destiny

Disarming

Diversity

Doubt

Dream

Earth

Eccentric

Eggs

Energy

Enough

Eye

Feelings

Female

Feminist

Finals

Firsts

Forever

Future

Generations

Gifted

Giving

Giving Up

Groups

Happiness

Heart

Heaven

Holding On

House

Ignorance

Inspirational

Inspiring

Intelligence

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Quotes by Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry

[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.

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.

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…

American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.

Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.

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.

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.’

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