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I'm just tired of hearing about God all the time. What has He got to do with anything?... I'm not going to be immoral or commit crimes because I don't believe. I don't even think about that. I just get so tired of Him getting the credit for things the human race achieves through its own effort. Now, there simply is no God. There's only man. And it's he who makes miracles.

~ Lorraine Hansberry

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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.

~ Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry Loneliness Talent Women

Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When he’s done good and made things easy for everybody? That ain’t the time at all. It’s when he’s at his lowest……and he can’t believe in himself because the world’s whipped him so!

~ Lorraine Hansberry

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Cause sometimes it's hard to let the future begin!

~ Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin In The Sun Future

MAMA: You must not dislike people ’cause they well off, honey.BENEATHA: Why not? It makes just as much sense as disliking people ’cause they are poor, and lots of people do that.

~ Lorraine Hansberry

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The Murchisons are honest-to-God-real-foe-rich colored people, and the only people in the world who are more snobbish than rich white people are rich colored people. I though everybody knew that.

~ Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry Race Snobbery Talented Tenth Wealth

I know he's rich. He knows he's rich, too.

~ Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry Conceit Shallow Shallowness Snobbery Wealth

Write if you will: but write about the world as it is and as you think it ought to be and must be—if there is to be a world. Write about all the things that men have written about since the beginning of writing and talking—but write to a point. Work hard at it, care about it. Write about our people: tell their story. You have something glorious to draw on begging for attention. Don’t pass it up. You have something glorious to draw on begging for attention. Don’t pass it up. Use it. Good luck to you. The Nation needs your gifts. Lorraine Hansberry speech, “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black,” given to Readers Digest/United Negro College Fund creative writing contest winners, NYC, May 1, 1964.

~ Lorraine Hansberry

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...I am the first to say that ours is a complex and difficult country and some of our complexities are indeed grotesque. We who are Negro Americans can offer that last remark with unwavering insistence. It is, on the other hand, also a great nation with certain beautiful and indestructible traditions and potentials which can be seized by all of who possess imagination and love of man. There is, as a certain play suggests, a great deal to be fought in America - but, at the same time, there is so much which begs to be but re-affirmed and cherished with sweet defiance.

~ Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry Justice Traditions United States Of America

Write if you will: but write about the world as it is and as you think it ought to be and must be—if there is to be a world. Write about all the things that men have written about since the beginning of writing and talking—but write to a point. Work hard at it, care about it. Write about our people: tell their story. You have something glorious to draw on begging for attention. Don’t pass it up. Use it. Good luck to you. The Nation needs your gifts. Lorraine Hansberry speech, “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black,” given to Readers Digest/United Negro College Fund creative writing contest winners, NYC, May 1, 1964.

~ Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry Lorraine Hansberry Writers On Writing

Write if you will: but write about the world as it is and as you think it ought to be and must be—if there is to be a world. Write about all the things that men have written about since the beginning of writing and talking—but write to a point. Work hard at it, care about it. Write about our people: tell their story. You have something glorious to draw on begging for attention. Don’t pass it up. Don’t pass it up. Use it. Good luck to you. The Nation needs your gifts. Lorraine Hansberry speech, “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black,” given to Readers Digest/United Negro College Fund creative writing contest winners, NYC, May 1, 1964.

~ Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry Lorraine Hansberry Writers On Writing

[Beneatha Younger:]... He said everybody ought to learn how to sit down and hate each other with good Chrisitan fellowship. [excerpt from Act II, Scene 3]

~ Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry Act 2 Scene 3 Polite Hatred Prejudice

Mama, you don’t understand. It’s all a matter of ideas, and God is just one idea I don’t acept. It’s not important. I am not going out and commit crimes or be immoral because I don’t believe in God. I don’t even think about it. It’s just that I get so tired of Him getting credit for all the things the human race achieves through its own stubborn effort. There simply is no God! There is only Man, and it’s he who makes miracles!

~ Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry Atheist

Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.

~ Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry Children God Man

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

~ Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry Nothing You Always

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

~ Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry Think Afraid Never

Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?

~ Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry Men Violence Will

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.

~ Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry Loneliness Challenge Woman
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