Lorraine Hansberry Quotes

You don't have to go to the kings and queens of the earth - I think the Greeks and Elizabethans did this because it was a logical concept - but every human being is in enormous conflict about something, even if it's how to get to work in the morning and all of that.

Lorraine Hansberry

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkMorningConflictThinkYouGo

If you don't love it, don't touch it.

Jenifer Lewis

LoveYouTouch

I think the landscape you grow up in probably does mark you in ways you don't even understand.

Andrea Barrett

ThinkGrowLandscapeYouUnderstand

All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.

Andrew Bird

SongAppreciatePlayJazzWithin

Although it was hard to be traded, I have no hard feelings. I'm grateful to Dan Gilbert and the Cavs organization for 12 amazing years. I know I'm very fortunate. I'm leaving one great team and joining another. I can't wait to put on my new Warrior jersey.

Anderson Varejao

GreatGratefulAmazingTeamWait

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

John Irving

PeopleActionEasyYouLookFind

People reacted to how I looked, and that was certainly a power to have as a young girl, but not one that you really understand.

Amanda de Cadenet

GirlPowerPeopleYouYoungHow

I think that in the cultural imagination, motherhood has a primacy that fatherhood just doesn't; and that's not to say that there aren't many fathers who are active and engaged and for whom that is their life's passion. But somehow, in the imagination, there's something different about maternity.

Rumaan Alam

LifePassionImaginationMotherhood

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

Mary Wollstonecraft

LifeLiveBlessingIndependenceLong

I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma.

Luis Alberto Urrea

GracePoliticalKarmaThemeWriter

I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.

Don Bluth

ThinkArtistBackJumpRingOut

Through time you learn from your experiences. I think I've learned to deal with people a little bit better over time. That in particular has developed a little bit.

Derek Jeter

TimePeopleThinkBetterLearnYou

I wanted the Peace Corps to be something very vague and unorganized, and to a large extent it was. It did not run smoothly. The consequence was that we were left alone.

Paul Theroux

AlonePeaceRunLeftSomethingDid

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