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One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.

Lorraine Hansberry

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
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
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
Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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Pieces Protest
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 was born black and female.
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African American Black Female
[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
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
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
When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists – nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.
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Curiosity Earth Men
I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.
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Destiny Stars Thinking
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
I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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Finals Stupidity Triumph
Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it’s money. I guess the world really do change.
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Once Upon A Time Used World
One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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Bread Enough Food One
Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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Dream Inspirational Love

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.

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