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The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

Lorraine Hansberry

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
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
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
A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men – and people in general.
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Being Alone Loneliness Running
Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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Groups Oppressed
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
Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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Age Balls Writing
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
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
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
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
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
One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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Bread Enough Food One
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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Race Struggle Thinking
I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Finals Stupidity Triumph

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