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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.

Lorraine Hansberry

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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Doubt Giving Struggle
I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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Finals Stupidity Triumph
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
I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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Care Caring Energy
I was born black and female.
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African American Black Female
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
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
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
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
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
American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Disarm Thinking
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
Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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Groups Oppressed
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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Children Dream Men
I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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Eggs First Want
One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Eye Feelings Heart

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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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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