Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.
Lorraine Hansberry
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Lorraine Hansberry
Age: 34 †
Born: 1930
Born: May 19
Died: 1965
Died: January 12
Activist
Civil And Political Rights
Human Rights Activist
Non-Fiction Writer
Playwright
Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
Chicago
Illinois
Lorraine Vivian Hansberry
Fact
Facts
Eleven
Earth
Abstraction
Nothing
Curiosity
Men
Exists
Ten
Stop
Looking
More quotes by Lorraine Hansberry
Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
Lorraine Hansberry
Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
Lorraine Hansberry
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
Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so - doubly dynamic - to be young, gifted and black.
Lorraine Hansberry
Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
Lorraine Hansberry
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
One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.
Lorraine Hansberry
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
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.'
Lorraine Hansberry
I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love.
Lorraine Hansberry
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
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
It isn't a circle--it is simply a long line--as in geometry, you know, one that reaches into infinity. And because we cannot see the end--we also cannot see how it changes. And it is very odd by those who see the changes--who dream, who will not give up--are called idealists...and those who see only the circle we call them the realists!
Lorraine Hansberry
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
Lorraine Hansberry
Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it's money. I guess the world really do change.
Lorraine Hansberry
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
I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
Lorraine Hansberry
Mama - Mama - I want so many things... I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.
Lorraine Hansberry
The 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 Hansberry
Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
Lorraine Hansberry
