Lorraine Hansberry citations

Source: To Be Young, Gifted and Black (1969), p. 137

Asagai to Beneatha, Act III
A Raisin in the Sun (1959)

Mama, Act III
A Raisin in the Sun (1959)
Contexte: There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing. Have you cried for that boy today? I don't mean for yourself and for the family 'cause we lost the money. I mean for him; what he's been through and what it done to him. Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most; when they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't through learning — because that ain't the time at all. It's when he's at his lowest and can't believe in hisself 'cause the world done whipped him so. When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.

Source: To Be Young, Gifted and Black (1969), p. 100
Contexte: 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 these things, I have found them to be reason enough and — I wish to live. Moreover, because this is so, I wish others to live for generations and generations and generations.

Source: To Be Young, Gifted and Black (1969), p. 100
Contexte: 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 these things, I have found them to be reason enough and — I wish to live. Moreover, because this is so, I wish others to live for generations and generations and generations.

Source: A Raisin in the Sun

Source: A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay

Source: A Raisin in the Sun

Source: A Raisin in the Sun

A Raisin in the Sun

As quoted in Wild Women Talk Back : Audacious Advice for the Bedroom, Boardroom, and Beyond (2004) by Autumn Stephens, p. 15

Beneatha to Walter, Act III
A Raisin in the Sun (1959)