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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
I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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Eggs First Want
This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn’t seem to give an answer, we create one.
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Giving Men Mind
I was born black and female.
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African American Black Female
I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific. Universality, I think, emerges from truthful identity of what is.
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Believe Thinking Writing
Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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Groups Oppressed
It’s dangerous, son.’ ‘What’s dangerous?’ ‘When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.
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House Men Son
One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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Bread Enough Food One
Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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Heaven Talking
I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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Care Caring Energy
Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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Pieces Protest
Ah, I like the look of packing crates! A household in preparation for a journey! … Something full of the flow of life, do you understand? Movement, progress…
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Journey Moving Preparation
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
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
That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
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Eccentric Mean Natural
Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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Dream Inspirational Love

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