Lorraine Hansberry — American Playwright born on May 19, 1930, died on January 12, 1965

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry was an American playwright and writer. Hansberry inspired Nina Simone's song "To Be Young, Gifted and Black"... (wikipedia)

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.
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.
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
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.