American - Playwright | May 19, 1930 - January 12, 1965
I have long since passed that period when I felt personal discomfort at the sight of an ill-dressed or illiterate Negro. Social awareness has taught me where to lay the blame.
Lorraine Hansberry
MeBlameLongPersonalAwareness
I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.
BeautyArtMyselfPersonalityJoy
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
LonelyYouMustMakeExceptional
Men continue to misinterpret the second-rate status of women as implying a privileged status for themselves; heterosexuals think the same way about homosexuals; gentiles about Jews; whites about blacks; haves about have-nots.
WomenMenThinkWaySameStatus
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.
WomenProblemsFeelUniqueRaceOwn
I think it is about time that equipped women began to take on some of the ethical questions which a male-dominated culture has produced and dissect and analyze them quite to pieces in a serious fashion. It is time that 'half the human race' had something to say about the nature of its existence.
NatureWomenTimeCultureFashion
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.
LonelinessChallengeMenWomanRisk
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.
TodayI AmFreeAmericaCitizenSay
The problem in the world is the oppression of man by man; it this which threatens existence.
ManWorldProblemOppressionWhich
I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
EnergyCareToo MuchMuchTakesToo
There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.
LoveYouNothingAlwaysSomething
Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
FearThinkNeverAfraidSitWhile
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