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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.

Lorraine Hansberry

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
I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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Care Caring Energy
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
Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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Age Balls Writing
American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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Disarm Thinking
The grim possibility is that she who ‘hides her brains’ will, more than likely, end up with a mate who is only equal to a woman with ‘hidden brains’ or none at all.
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Brain Intelligence Women
Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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Groups Oppressed
[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
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 was born black and female.
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African American Black Female
Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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Pieces Protest
One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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Bread Enough Food One
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
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
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

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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