Memorial gravestone of Lorraine Hansberry who died on January 12, 1965 at the age of 34 from pancreatic cancer. Hansberry is buried at the Bethel Cemetery in Croton-on-Hudson, Westchester County, NY. The text on her gravestone is from The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window: “I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care. The why of why we are here is an intrigue for adolescents. The how is what must command the living which is why I have lately become an insurgent again.”
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