17 Motivational Quotes By Lorraine Hansberry Who Left A Lasting Legacy
Lorraine Hansberry was a distinguished American writer and author. She was the first African-American female author who had a play staged on ‘Broadway.’ She is renowned for ‘A Raisin in the Sun,’ the play that reflects the lives of ‘Black Americans’ who stayed in Chicago under racial segregation. She was the fifth woman, the youngest playwright and the first Africa-American to receive the ‘New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award.’ Her writings also talked about her lesbianism and the maltreatment of homosexuality. Following is a corpus of famous quotes by Lorraine Hansberry, which have been curated from her plays, writings, interviews, and books. Let us browse through the sayings by Lorraine Hansberry and see what we can learn from them.
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.
There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!" "Finish your eggs first.
It's dangerous, son." "What's dangerous?" "When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.
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.
Mama--Mama--I want so many things... I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy...
That's what being eccentric means--being natural.
![[Beneatha Younger:]... He said everybody ought to learn how to sit down and hate each other with good Chrisitan fellowship.
[excerpt from Act II, Scene 3]](https://www.wisdomly.net/images/quotes/lorraine-hansberry-33054.jpg)
[Beneatha Younger:]... He said everybody ought to learn how to sit down and hate each other with good Chrisitan fellowship. [excerpt from Act II, Scene 3]
Perhaps I will be a great man...I mean perhaps I will hold on to the substance of truth and find my way always with the right course
DAMN MY EGGS! DAMN ALL THE EGGS THAT EVER WAS!" -Wilson
Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
Something always told me I wasn't no rich white woman.
For above all, in behalf of an ailing world which sorely needs our defiance, may we, as Negroes or women, never accept the notion of - "our place.
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.
You’re a nice-looking girl … all over. That’s all you need, honey, forget the atmosphere.
How we gets to the place where we scared to talk softness to each other.
