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Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was an African-American playwright and writer.

She was the first black woman to write a play performed on Broadway. Her best known work, the play A Raisin in the Sun, highlights the lives of Black Americans living under racial segregation in Chicago. Hansberry's family had struggled against segregation, challenging a restrictive covenant and eventually provoking the Supreme Court case Hansberry v. Lee. The title of the play was taken from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes: "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"

At the young age of 29, she won the New York's Drama Critic's Circle Award — making her the first black dramatist, the fifth woman, and the youngest playwright to do so.

After she moved to New York City, Hansberry worked at the Pan-Africanist newspaper Freedom, where she dealt with intellectuals such as Paul Robeson and W. E. B. Du Bois. Much of her work during this time concerned the African struggle for liberation and their impact on the world. Hansberry has been identified as a lesbian, and sexual freedom is an important topic in several of her works. She died of cancer at the age of 34. Hansberry inspired Nina Simone's song "To Be Young, Gifted and Black".

✵ 19. květen 1930 – 12. leden 1965   •   Další jména 洛蘭·漢斯貝里, لورن هنزبری
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“Children see things very well sometimes — and idealists even better.”

Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun

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

“Don't get up. Just sit a while and think. Never be afraid to sit a while and think.”

Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun

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

“There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.”

Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun

Mama, Act III
A Raisin in the Sun (1959)
Kontext: 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.

“I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful and that which is love.”

Zdroj: To Be Young, Gifted and Black (1969), p. 100
Kontext: 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.

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

Zdroj: To Be Young, Gifted and Black (1969), p. 100
Kontext: 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.

“I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!"
"Finish your eggs first.”

Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun

Zdroj: A Raisin in the Sun

“It's dangerous, son."
"What's dangerous?"
"When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.”

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

“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.”

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

“I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!”

Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun

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

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