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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?

Lorraine Hansberry

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

Destiny Stars Thinking
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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Eye Feelings Heart
I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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Eggs First Want
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
[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
Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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Dream Inspirational Love
I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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Care Caring Energy
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
Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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Groups Oppressed
Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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Heaven Talking
One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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Bread Enough Food One
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
Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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Pieces Protest
Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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Acceptance Children Inspirational
American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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Disarm 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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Feminist Ignorance Roots

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