Racism is a disease of democracy. Our country could be one of the greatest countries that god ever imagined, were it not for this thing of racism…This grand experiment that is America is tainted by racism and bigotry, and these kinds of hatreds…This ridiculous thing of racism.”
Encyclopaedia Africana L
August 30, 2020
LORRAINE HANSBERRY
Early in her writing life, she was mentored by both W. E. B. Du Bois and Langston Hughes.