Lorraine Hansberry Quotes About Acceptance

Quotes about: Acceptance

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

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  "To Be Young, Gifted and Black : Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words" by Lorraine Hansberry, (p. 137), 1969.

• ...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

• 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

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