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.

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Lorraine Hansberry: A woman ahead of her time and a sexual revolutionary https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5a55566ce4b0277d62e113ae/amp

In a 1959 interview with Studs Terkel, Lorraine Hansberry tells him “the most oppressed group of any oppressed group will be its women,” and says that those who are “twice oppressed” may become “twice militant.”

“We never talked about men or clothes...It was always Marx, Lenin & revolution—real girls’ talk," Nina Simone on her friend Lorraine Hansberry https://lithub.com/young-gifted-and-black-on-the-politicization-of-nina-simone/

Nina Simone wrote Young, Gifted and Black for Lorraine Hansberry. Here they are together

"I loved her, she was my sister and comrade," James Baldwin on Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry, 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,” Lorraine Hansberry, The Black Revolution and the White Backlash forum, 1964.

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

https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.ca/&httpsredir=1&article=1266&context=gc_pubs

“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