"In an interview with Patricia Marx for radio station WNYC in New York, [Lorraine] Hansberry suggested that 'perhaps we must take a more respectful view of the fact that African leaders today say that, with regard to Europe and European traditions in the world, we will take the best of what Europe has produced and the best of what we have produced and try to create a superior civilization out of the synthesis. I agree with them and I think that it commands respect for what will be inherently African in that contribution.' "

Source: Carter, Steven R., Colonialism and Culture in Lorraine Hansberry's Les Blancs in MELUS, The Journal of the Society of Multi-Ethnic Literature in the United States, Spring 1988.  To listen to the full Marx interview with Hansberry go to: HANSBERRY.