Lorraine Hansberry Quotes about Children

...Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non- violent.... They must harass, debate, petition, boycott, sing hymns, pray on steps--and shoot

...Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non- violent.... They must harass, debate, petition, boycott, sing hymns, pray on steps--and shoot from their windows when the racists come cruising through their communities.... The acceptance of our condition is the only form of extremism which discredits us before our children [ellipses in source].

Lorraine Hansberry

Children, Struggle, Mean

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

Dream, Children, Men

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... 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.

Lorraine Hansberry

Children, Taken, Thinking

"A Raisin in the Sun". Play by Lorraine Hansberry, 1959.

Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.

Lorraine Hansberry

Inspirational, Children, Acceptance

Lorraine Hansberry (2011). “A Raisin in the Sun”, p.116, Vintage

Big Walter used to say, he'd get right wet in the eyes sometimes, lean his head back with the water standing in his eyes and say, 'Seem like God didn't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worth while.'

Lorraine Hansberry

Dream, Children, Eye

"A Raisin in the Sun".

Lorraine Hansberry Quotes about Children

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