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Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it’s money. I guess the world really do change.

Lorraine Hansberry

I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific. Universality, I think, emerges from truthful identity of what is.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Believe Thinking Writing
[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
Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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Pieces Protest
American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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Disarm Thinking
Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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Acceptance Children Inspirational
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
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
Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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Dream Inspirational Love
Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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Heaven Talking
Sometimes, I can see the future stretched out in front of me – just as plain as day. The future hanging over there at the edge of my days. Just waiting for me.
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Future Sometimes Waiting
Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so – doubly dynamic – to be young, gifted and black.
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Black Gifted Young
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
There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
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Inspirational Love Raisins
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
Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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Life Men Violence
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

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