Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't through learning-because that ain't the time at all...when you starts measuring somebody, measure him right, child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.

Posthumous works
Her ex-husband Robert Nemiroff became the executor for several unfiniLorraine Hansberryd manuscripts. Death
After a battle with pancreatic cancer Lorraine Hansberry died on January 12 1965 aged 34. In 1953 Lorraine Hansberry married Robert Nemiroff a Jewish publiLorraine Hansberryr songwriter and political activist.

Her best known work the play A Raisin in the Sun was inspired by her family's battle against racial segregation in Chicago. Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19 1930 – January 12 1965) was an African-American playwright and writer.