To Be Young Gifted and Black (117-157)

Summary


Toussaint L'Ouverture was a Haitian liberator and also Lorraine Hansberry hero she was obsessed with the idea of writing a play or a novel about him. two years latter she started working on a play about Toussaint L'Ouverture. she tried to write a men and not lose the wonder of his magnitude.
At the time when she was writing this play Lorraine Hansberry was very lonely. she spend most of her days at home writing. but all of her work paid off, because she was an incredible writer and had a very successful play.
Lorraine Hansberry has faced many set backs in her life time from going to an all black school to living in a all white neighborhood all of her life experiences helped write all her stories and shape her into becoming an excellent author.

Quote

As she said "Have torn up another twenty pages-open another ream-sharpened another dozen pencils... and now? what? They say that one should set a schedule and keep to it no matter what"( Hansberry 171).

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This quote shows that everyone struggles in life, and the best thing to do is not give up. You have to keep going no matter and eventually your dreams will come true. If Lorraine Hansberry had given up every time something was to hard she would have never become such an incredible writer.