Zitat des Tages von Lorraine Hansberry:
I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
Daddy felt that this country was hopeless in its treatment of Negroes. So he became a refugee from America. He bought a house in Polanco, a suburb of Mexico City, and we were planning to move there when he died. I was fourteen at the time.
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.
Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better.
Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
The why of why we are here is an intrigue for adolescents; the how is what must command the living.
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.
There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.
Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?
I live in the Village, and the way it's been, people sort of drop in on me and my husband. My husband is Robert Nemiroff, and he, too, is a writer.
Once I'm on the phone, I just can't say no. I sometimes find myself doing things for three or four organizations in one day.