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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

That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Eccentric Mean Natural
I was born black and female.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

African American Black Female
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

Giving Men Mind
Big Walter used to say, he’d get right wet in the eyes sometimes, lean his head back with the water standing in his eyes and say, ‘Seem like God didn’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worth while.’
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Children Dream Everyone Eye
I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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Care Caring Energy
Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Acceptance Children Inspirational
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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Feminist Ignorance Roots
Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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Age Balls Writing
I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.
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Destiny Stars Thinking
One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Bread Enough Food One
Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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Groups Oppressed
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–
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Dream Holding Wanted
There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Inspirational Love Raisins
[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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Circles Mirages Thinking
I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Eggs First Want
When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists – nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Curiosity Earth Men

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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