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Mama – Mama – I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.

Lorraine Hansberry

Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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Heaven Talking
There may be women to emerge who will be able to formulate a new and possible concept that homosexual persecution and condemnation has at its roots not only social ignorance, but a philosophically active anti-feminist dogma.
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Feminist Ignorance Roots
It is difficult for the American mind to adjust to the realization that the Rhetts and the Scarletts were as much monsters as the keepers of Buchenwald-they just dressed more attractively.
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Diversity Justice Mind
Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually — without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts? This is what I puzzle about.
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Doubt Giving Struggle
What you ain’t never understood is that I ain’t got nothing, don’t own nothing, ain’t never really wanted nothing that wasn’t for you. There ain’t nothing as precious to me…There ain’t nothing worth holding on to, money, dreams, nothing else–
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Dream Holding Wanted
I happen to believe that most people – and this is where I differ from many of my contemporaries, or at least as they express themselves – I think that virtually every human being is dramatically interesting. Not only is he dramatically interesting, he is a creature of stature whoever he is.
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Believe People Thinking
The grim possibility is that she who ‘hides her brains’ will, more than likely, end up with a mate who is only equal to a woman with ‘hidden brains’ or none at all.
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Brain Intelligence Women
Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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Acceptance Children Inspirational
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
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Children Mean Struggle
Beneatha: You didn’t tell us what Alaiyo means… for all I know, you might be calling me Little Idiot or something… … Asagai: It means… it means One for Whom Bread–Food–Is Not Enough.
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Calling Littles Mean
Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so – doubly dynamic – to be young, gifted and black.
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Black Gifted Young
There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
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Inspirational Love Raisins
Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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Pieces Protest
A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men – and people in general.
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Being Alone Loneliness Running
Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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Age Balls Writing
I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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Eggs First Want

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