That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYThat’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYThe thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYChildren see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYOnce upon a time freedom used to be life-now it’s money. I guess the world really do change.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYThere may be women to emerge who will be able to formulate a new and possible concept that homosexual persecution and condemnation has at its roots not only social ignorance, but a philosophically active anti-feminist dogma.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYI look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
LORRAINE HANSBERRYI care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYI was born black and female.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYThe grim possibility is that she who ‘hides her brains’ will, more than likely, end up with a mate who is only equal to a woman with ‘hidden brains’ or none at all.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYBig 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.’
LORRAINE HANSBERRYBall points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYTake away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
LORRAINE HANSBERRYAh, 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 HANSBERRYObviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
LORRAINE HANSBERRYIt 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 HANSBERRYThis 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