"A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the chal…"

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

"Children see things very well sometimes — and idealists even better."

"There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing. Have you cried for …"

"I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful and that which is love. Therefo…"

"Eventually it comes to you: the thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must al…"

"It is hard for me to talk about Lorraine in a way because I loved her. She was like my baby sister, in a way. I can't…"

"The great victims in this country of the institution called segregation, which is not solely a southern custom but ha…"

"Years later when Alpheus Hunton, Lou Burnham and Lorraine Hansberry started Freedom, the newspaper in which Paul Robe…"

"My first real job was as an art editor of the People's Voice...The secretary who was there gently growing her wings w…"