“Moreover, because this is so, I wish others to live for generations and generations and generations.”

— Lorraine Hansberry

Source: To Be Young, Gifted and Black (1969), p. 100
Context: 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.

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playwright and writer 1930–1965

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