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Quote by Lorraine Hansberry

“Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women”

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Lorraine Hansberry was an American playwright and writer, renowned for her play 'A Raisin in the Sun', which is a cornerstone of African American literature and a significant work in American theater. Born in Chicago, her work frequently centered on the lives of African Americans and the social and political issues of her era. more

“In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with a die; and in the long years after, they can be called up in detail, and every emotion that was stirred by them can be lived through anew; these are the tragedies of life.”

Years Long Dies Memories Numbers Emotion Written Tragedy Details

Book:Slavery: Not Forgiven, Never Forgotten – The Most Powerful Slave Narratives, Historical Documents & Influential Novels: The Underground Railroad, Memoirs of Frederick Douglass, 12 Years a Slave, Uncle Tom's Cabin, History of Abolitionism, Lynch Law, Civil Rights Acts, New Amendments and much more

Source: Slavery: Not Forgiven, Never Forgotten – The Most Powerful Slave Narratives, Historical Documents & Influential Novels: The Underground Railroad, Memoirs of Frederick Douglass, 12 Years a Slave, Uncle Tom's Cabin, History of Abolitionism, Lynch Law, Civil Rights Acts, New Amendments and much more

“And God stepped out on space, and He looked around and said: I'm lonely - I'll make me a world.”

World Said Space Lonely I'm Lonely

Author:James Weldon Johnson

“It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.”

People Honest Strange Honest People Compunction

Book:The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays

Source: The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays

“It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.”

Black Disgrace Inconvenient

Book:The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Source: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

“My love for my children makes me glad that I am what I am, and keeps me from desiring to be otherwise; and yet, when I sometimes open a little box in which I still keep my fast yellowing manuscripts, the only tangible remnants of a vanished dream, a dead ambition, a sacrificed talent, I cannot repress the thought, that after all I have chosen the lesser part, that I have sold my birthright for a mess of pottage”