Mine is, after all, the generation that had come to maturity drinking in the forebodings of the Silones, Koestlers, and Richard Wrights. It had left us ill-prepared for decisions that had to be made in our own time about Algeria, Birmingham, or the Bay of Pigs. Lorraine Hansberry Read Quote
As of today, if I am asked abroad if I am a free citizen of the United States of America, I must only say what is true: No. Lorraine Hansberry Read Quote
Daddy felt that this country was hopeless in its treatment of Negroes. So he became a refugee from America. He bought a house in Polanco, a suburb of Mexico City, and we were planning to move there when he died. I was fourteen at the time. Lorraine Hansberry Read Quote
The why of why we are here is an intrigue for adolescents; the how is what must command the living. Lorraine Hansberry Read Quote
If, by some miracle, women should not ever utter a single protest against their condition, there would still exist among men those who could not endure in peace until her liberation had been achieved. Lorraine Hansberry Read Quote
Once I’m on the phone, I just can’t say no. I sometimes find myself doing things for three or four organizations in one day. Lorraine Hansberry Read Quote
I feel that women – without wishing to foster any strict separatist notions, homo or hetero – indeed have a need for their own publications and organizations. Our problems, our experiences as women are profoundly unique as compared to the other half of the human race. Lorraine Hansberry Read Quote
I live in the Village, and the way it’s been, people sort of drop in on me and my husband. My husband is Robert Nemiroff, and he, too, is a writer. Lorraine Hansberry Read Quote
I don’t want to have anyone else to do my housework. I’ve always done it myself. I believe you should do it yourself. I feel very strongly about that. Lorraine Hansberry Read Quote
