Lorraine Hansberry Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TimeCityPlanningAmericaHouse

Today's merger makers are not ad people; they're building communications companies.

Jerry Della Femina

TodayPeopleBuildingMergerMakers

And plenty makes us poor.

John Dryden

MoneyPoorUsMakesPlenty

People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society.

John Roberts

GoodPeopleSocietyOwnThingsFail

I grew up in a renaissance period, a very lucky time when the greatest music ever made was also the most commercial. We'll never see that again, so for me, there's only one criteria, which is greatness. That's all I care about. Is what I'm doing reaching for greatness? Whether I achieve it or not, that is one hundred percent of my criteria.

Steven Van Zandt

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Alexander II really used autocracy well to negotiate the freeing of the serfs in 1861.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

UsedWellNegotiateReallyFreeing

I'm around my kids every day. I'm regular. We're a regular family. My wife cooks, she washes clothes, I read books, I pump my own gas, I get my own hair cut.

Tracy Morgan

FamilyDayWifeHairClothesMy Own

I'm a one-woman man. Pretty much.

Robert Cray

ManPrettyMuchOne-Woman

The type of work I do, which is often called 'Pop Surrealism,' is very separate from Gagosian and Mary Boone type of gallery art.

Molly Crabapple

WorkArtGalleryPopSurrealism

'Baywatch' sucks so bad. I didn't watch it the first time around; I'm sure not going to buy a DVD. But really, you just kind of find out the categories of what's most foolish about these people. With Hasselhoff, it's obviously the huge man-tits with chest hair, probably a lot about his crappy acting, obviously the hamburger video - that's huge.

Lisa Lampanelli

TimePeopleHairYouBadActing

I hate it when, by page 30, I know what the lead's going to do and then what the bad guy's gonna do. Mostly it's just scripts by the numbers where nothing's surprising, nothing's interesting.

Don Cheadle

HateInterestingBadNumbersKnow

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

Doug Larson

FriendshipSuccessFriendTrue Friend

I had originally written 'Pariah' as a feature, and we shot the first act as a short film, and then we used the short as a marketing tool to fundraise for the feature.

Dee Rees

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