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Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women

Lorraine Hansberry

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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Believe Thinking Writing
Mama – Mama – I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Crazy Mama Want
I was born black and female.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

African American Black Female
There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Inspirational Love Raisins
I think that the glorious thing about the human race is that it does change the world — constantly. The world or ‘life’ may seem to more often overwhelm the human being’s capacity for struggling against being overwhelmed which is remarkable and exhilarating.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

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

Care Caring Energy
It is difficult for the American mind to adjust to the realization that the Rhetts and the Scarletts were as much monsters as the keepers of Buchenwald-they just dressed more attractively.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Diversity Justice Mind
I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Beautiful Wish
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 look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Finals Stupidity Triumph
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Children Mean Struggle
I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Eggs First Want
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
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
One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Eye Feelings Heart

Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women

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