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

—Lorraine Hansberry

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About Lorraine Hansberry

Portrait of Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an American playwright and civil rights activist. She was the first Black American female author to have a play performed on Broadway.

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The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

—Lorraine Hansberry

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More quotations tagged with “curiosity”

Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.

—E. O. Wilson

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Most people would say I'm pretty cold, but I think of it more as… private. People are always saying "how are you?" to each other, and I guess I don't see why I should answer such a personal question for just anyone.

—Amie Kaufman in Illuminae

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Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.

—William Wirt

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

—Walter Pater

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

—Steven Wright

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