It isn't a circle--it is simply a long line--as in geometry, you know, one that reaches into infinity. And because we cannot see the end--we also can…

- Lorraine Hansberry

[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 mira…

- Lorraine Hansberry

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.

- Lorraine Hansberry

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

- Lorraine Hansberry

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

- Lorraine Hansberry

I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful and that which is love. Therefore, since I have known all of th…

- Lorraine Hansberry

I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.

- Lorraine Hansberry

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 inter…

- Lorraine Hansberry

I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love.

- Lorraine Hansberry