# To Be Young, Gifted and Black

- Author: [Lorraine Hansberry](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lorraine-hansberry.md)
- Quotes: 2
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/lorraine-hansberry/to-be-young-gifted-and-black

## Quotes

> Eventually it comes to you: the thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

p. 137 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lorraine-hansberry/to-be-young-gifted-and-black/eventually-it-comes.md)

> I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful and that which is love. Therefore, since I have known all of these things, I have found them to be reason enough and — I wish to live. Moreover, because this is so, I wish others to live for generations and generations and generations.

p. 100 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lorraine-hansberry/to-be-young-gifted-and-black/i-wish-to-live.md)