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There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.

Lorraine Hansberry

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 was born black and female.
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African American Black Female
Seems like God don’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.
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Children Dream Men
Mama – Mama – I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.
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Crazy Mama Want
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
[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
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
Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually — without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts? This is what I puzzle about.
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Doubt Giving Struggle
Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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Groups Oppressed
Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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Dream Inspirational Love
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
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 happen to believe that most people – and this is where I differ from many of my contemporaries, or at least as they express themselves – I think that virtually every human being is dramatically interesting. Not only is he dramatically interesting, he is a creature of stature whoever he is.
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Believe People 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
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
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

There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.

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