black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific. Universality, I think, emerges from truthful identity of what is.

Lorraine Hansberry

When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists – nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Curiosity Earth Men
Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it’s money. I guess the world really do change.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Once Upon A Time Used World
There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Inspirational Love Raisins
Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually — without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts? This is what I puzzle about.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Doubt Giving Struggle
That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Eccentric Mean Natural
I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Finals Stupidity Triumph
Seems like God don’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Children Dream Men
Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Groups Oppressed
This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn’t seem to give an answer, we create one.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Giving Men Mind
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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

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…
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Journey Moving Preparation
I happen to believe that most people – and this is where I differ from many of my contemporaries, or at least as they express themselves – I think that virtually every human being is dramatically interesting. Not only is he dramatically interesting, he is a creature of stature whoever he is.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Believe People Thinking
[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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Circles Mirages Thinking
I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Care Caring Energy
Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Acceptance Children Inspirational
Sometimes, I can see the future stretched out in front of me – just as plain as day. The future hanging over there at the edge of my days. Just waiting for me.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Future Sometimes Waiting

I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific. Universality, I think, emerges from truthful identity of what is.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific. Universality, I think, emerges from truthful identity of what is.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes