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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

I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Finals Stupidity Triumph
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
Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Pieces Protest
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
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.
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Black Gifted Young
[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
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
Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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Groups Oppressed
I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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Eggs First Want
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
There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Inspirational Love Raisins
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
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
Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Age Balls Writing
Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Life Men Violence
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

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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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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