Lorraine Hansberry Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: playwright
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 19, 1930 - January 12, 1965

Topics

MeBlameLongPersonalAwareness

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

Jimmy Connors

LoveSportsYouStopNewClean

When I first was exposed to Buddhism in the mid-1960s, I said it was so practical and utterly pragmatic. That's what attracted me to Buddhism.

Joan Halifax

MeSaidFirstPragmaticPractical

I think it would be bad to a truly successful celebrity person, because I know these novelists where people get a cult following, and they have some strange personal attachment to them because it's so personal to read a book.

Andrew Sean Greer

PeopleBookThinkBadPersonKnow

George Washington participated as a vestryman in his local congregation, but that didn't really imply any particular kind of religious belief. This was necessary in order to participate in the society.

Matthew Stewart

SocietyWashingtonKindBeliefOrder

In my life, I have met astonishingly good people.

Ann Patchett

LifeGoodPeopleGood PeopleMy Life

I'm a good shot and I love guns - I own several.

Amber Heard

LoveGoodGunsOwnShotI Love

It was at the graduate school at Columbia University that I first met Wesley C. Mitchell, with whom I was associated for many years at the National Bureau of Economic Research and to whom I owe a great intellectual debt.

Simon Kuznets

GreatSchoolResearchIntellectual

I like stories of the classic hero, of good versus evil, the ones in which the good guys wear white and the bad guys wear black... and I love a good sword fight.

Simon Sinek

LoveGoodHeroFightEvilBlack

I don't put myself through that nauseating experience of looking at someone's face while they go through your stuff. Ugh! It's just horrible! It gives me the cringes to even think about it.

Roz Chast

MyselfExperienceMeLookingFace

I'm all for diversity - but diversity for deserving people.

Lubna Olayan

DiversityPeopleDeserving

I hope things go phenomenally well for Spain and for Luis Enrique. I'm a fervent supporter of the national team.

Julen Lopetegui

HopeTeamGoThingsSpainWell

It's just a given that women are working and are ambitious and have things they want to accomplish, and that stymies the amount of time they have to look around for a perfect guy.

Jordana Spiro

WomenTimeAccomplishPerfectLook

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