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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.

Lorraine Hansberry

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
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
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
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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Brain Intelligence Women
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
[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
That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
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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
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
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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Black Gifted Young
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
I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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Care Caring Energy
I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Finals Stupidity Triumph
Mama – Mama – I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Crazy Mama Want
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

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