# Quote — Lorraine Hansberry, To Be Young, Gifted and Black

> 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.

- Author: [Lorraine Hansberry](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lorraine-hansberry.md)
- Book: [To Be Young, Gifted and Black](https://www.leafyquotes.com/lorraine-hansberry/to-be-young-gifted-and-black.md)
- Page: 100
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lorraine_Hansberry#To_Be_Young,_Gifted_and_Black_(1969)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/lorraine-hansberry/to-be-young-gifted-and-black/i-wish-to-live

## More from this book

> 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)