Lorraine Hansberry Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TodayI AmFreeAmericaCitizenSay

There's an enormous amount of obliviousness: a desire among young gentrifiers to see only the city they want to see.

Jess Row

CityDesireYoungWantSeeOnly

There is no single theory that is used in economics that considers the finite nature of resources. It's shocking.

Jeremy Grantham

NatureEconomicsResourcesSingle

A novel is a collision of ideas. Three or four threads may be floating around in the writer's consciousness, and at a single moment in time, these ideas collide and produce a novel.

Anita Shreve

TimeMomentIdeasThreeFloating

Governments can help support European music by promoting public awareness that when people take music that doesn't belong to them, they undermine the future of those very artists whose work they enjoy.

Jean-Michel Jarre

WorkFutureMusicSupportPeople

Every leader has the responsibility to hone his or her integrity. Many times, there are integrity traps that have a tendency to catch well-meaning leaders off guard.

Travis Bradberry

LeaderIntegrityResponsibilityCatch

Every embarrassing moment is going to be shown on the Internet, whether the candidate likes it or not. The ones that can't deal with that are going to fail.

David Weinberger

MomentInternetFailGoingCandidate

If I'm in a rotten mood, I stay in and watch television.

Cilla Black

TelevisionMoodWatchStayRotten

I suppose I am gently cynical about notions of who we think we are, but I certainly don't hate my fellow man. I think my cinema, although it might often deal with death and decay, is highly celebratory.

Peter Greenaway

HateDeathManI AmThinkCinema

My clients are the whales and the seals.

Paul Watson

ClientsWhalesSeals

Our daily life is filled with electronic pianos, ring tones, the disembodied voice giving you your bank balance over the telephone. Even silence can be electronic, courtesy of sound-canceling headphones.

Serge Schmemann

LifeDailyDaily LifeBalanceVoice

I like to think that I'm trying to choose love over most things, but that's my choice.

Seal

LoveThinkTryingChooseChoice

'I Am Legend' is quite unusual for its time. I just wanted to write a story about female boxers, and I couldn't get that going in my mind. I don't know exactly where the idea of just a man pitting himself against a robot boxer came from.

Richard Matheson

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