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Lorraine Hansberry

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I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!" "Finish your eggs first.


— Lorraine Hansberry


#humor #inspirational #humor

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


#exposure #general #her #herself #interesting

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


— Lorraine Hansberry


#always #learned #left #nothing #something

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


#children #did #dreams #fit #give

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.


— Lorraine Hansberry


#never #sit #think #while

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


— Lorraine Hansberry


#hear #men #peace #take #violence

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.


— Lorraine Hansberry


#exceptional #inevitably #lonely #make #makes

Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better.


— Lorraine Hansberry


#children #even #idealists #see #sometimes






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Posthumous works
Her ex-husband Robert Nemiroff became the executor for several unfiniLorraine Hansberryd manuscripts. Death
After a battle with pancreatic cancer Lorraine Hansberry died on January 12 1965 aged 34. In 1953 Lorraine Hansberry married Robert Nemiroff a Jewish publiLorraine Hansberryr songwriter and political activist.

Her best known work the play A Raisin in the Sun was inspired by her family's battle against racial segregation in Chicago. Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19 1930 – January 12 1965) was an African-American playwright and writer.

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