98 Quotes by Lorraine Hansberry

A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed are by their nature (i.e., oppressed) forever in ferment and agitation against their condition and what they understand to be their oppressors. If not by overt rebellion or revolution, then in the thousand and one ways they will devise with and without consciousness to alter their condition

Mama--Mama--I want so many things... I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy...

I was born black and female.

That's what being eccentric means--being natural.

Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't through learning-because that ain't the time at all...when you starts measuring somebody, measure him right, child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.

I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.

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 ...

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.

I wish to live beacause life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love. Therefore, since I have known all of these things, I have found them to be reason enough and--I wish to live. Moreover, because this is so, I wish others to live for generations and generations and generations and generations.