98 Quotes by 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."

"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."

"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."

"Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!"

"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."

"Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it’s money. I guess the world really do change."

"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."

"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."

"There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing."

"Cause sometimes it’s hard to let the future begin!"