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Lorraine Hansberry Quotes

«The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.»
«Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.»
Author: Lorraine Hansberry (Playwright) | Keywords: awhile
«[T]here is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little picture -- in front of us -- our own little mirage that we think is the future.»
«Children see things very well sometimes -- and idealists even better.»
«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.»
«Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?»
«There is always something left to love. And if you haven't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.»
«When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right...Make sure you done take into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got wherever he is.»
«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.»