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Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.

Lorraine Hansberry

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
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
I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love.
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Beautiful Wish
I was born black and female.
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African American Black Female
Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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Heaven Talking
I think that the glorious thing about the human race is that it does change the world — constantly. The world or ‘life’ may seem to more often overwhelm the human being’s capacity for struggling against being overwhelmed which is remarkable and exhilarating.
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Race Struggle Thinking
Big Walter used to say, he’d get right wet in the eyes sometimes, lean his head back with the water standing in his eyes and say, ‘Seem like God didn’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worth while.’
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Children Dream Everyone Eye
[T]here is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little picture — in front of us — our own little mirage that we think is the future.
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Circles Mirages Thinking
That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
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Eccentric Mean Natural
One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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Bread Enough Food One
I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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Care Caring Energy
Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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Acceptance Children Inspirational
Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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Dream Inspirational Love
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
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

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