Happy Born Day, Lorraine Hansberry: May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965.
She is one of my heroes for the way her writing and activism combined feminism, lesbianism, leftist politics, and fighting racism lambdaliterary.org/2014/02/twice-…
She is one of my heroes for the way her writing and activism combined feminism, lesbianism, leftist politics, and fighting racism lambdaliterary.org/2014/02/twice-…
Twice militant: I love this quote by #LorraineHansberry. I use it as an epigraph in The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls. 
Nina Simone said on her friendship with #LorraineHansberry: “Lorraine started off my political education, and through her I started thinking about myself as a Black person in a country run by white people and a woman in a world run by men.” lithub.com/young-gifted-a…
"Although Lorraine was a girlfriend. . . we never talked about men or clothes or other such inconsequential things when we got together. It was always Marx, Lenin and revolution—real girls’ talk," Nina Simone on #LorraineHansberry
Lorraine Hansberry: A woman ahead of her time and a sexual revolutionary. Look for director Tracy Heather Strain’s documentary "Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart" m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5a…
Nina Simone wrote Young, Gifted and Black for #LorraineHansberry. Here they are together
"I loved her, she was my sister and comrade," James Baldwin on #LorraineHansberry
#LorraineHansberry, 1962, on struggle and resistance.
“We have to find some way to persuade the white liberal to stop being a liberal and become an American Radical,” #LorraineHansberry, The Black Revolution and the White Backlash forum, 1964.
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by
@imaniperry
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by
@imaniperry
“We – black people, black LGBT people, black librarians, archivists, women, activists, scholars, and queer – are finally in a place of power and access to...(re)claim our rich narratives” Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, Outing Lorraine at the Schomburg Center academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewconten…
“We know that (Lorraine) Hansberry was married to a Communist. We know that Hansberry had an FBI file years before Raisin in the Sun was debuted. We also know that Hansberry was involved in lesbian feminist social networks.”
The Lorraine Hansberry quote on struggling and resistance is from here #LorraineHansberry
And look at this!
https://twitter.com/BeineckeLibrary/status/1395120843961864193?s=20
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