98 Quotes by 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.

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.

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.

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

I know he’s rich. He knows he’s rich, too.

The acceptance of our present condition is the only form of extremism which discredits us before our children.

When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists – nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.

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. It’s when he’s at his lowest and can’t believe in hisself ’cause the world done whipped him so! 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.

The problem in the world is the oppression of man by man; it this which threatens existence.