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
Seems like God dont see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile. – Lorraine Hansberry
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. – Lorraine Hansberry
Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace? – Lorraine Hansberry
There’s something like a line of gold thread running through a man’s words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. – John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994