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I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.

Lorraine Hansberry

Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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Pieces Protest
Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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Life Men Violence
I was born black and female.
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African American Black Female
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 want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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Eggs First Want
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
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 look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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Finals Stupidity Triumph
Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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Acceptance Children Inspirational
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
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
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
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
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
I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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Care Caring Energy
Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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Groups Oppressed

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