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Mama – Mama – I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.

Lorraine Hansberry

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

Eccentric Mean Natural
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
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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

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
I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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Care Caring Energy
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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Future Sometimes Waiting
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.’
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Children Dream Everyone Eye
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
I was born black and female.
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African American Black Female
Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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Life Men Violence
Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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Dream Inspirational Love
[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
Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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Groups Oppressed
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

Diversity Justice Mind
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
I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Eggs First Want

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