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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

Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Acceptance Children Inspirational
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
That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
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Eccentric Mean Natural
I happen to believe that most people – and this is where I differ from many of my contemporaries, or at least as they express themselves – I think that virtually every human being is dramatically interesting. Not only is he dramatically interesting, he is a creature of stature whoever he is.
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Believe People Thinking
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
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
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
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.
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Race Struggle Thinking
I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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Eggs First Want
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
American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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Disarm Thinking
Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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Pieces Protest
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.
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Doubt Giving Struggle
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.
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Children Dream Men
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.
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Believe Thinking Writing
Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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Dream Inspirational Love

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