Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYWhat 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–
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Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it’s money. I guess the world really do change.
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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–
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I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love.
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I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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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.
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I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.
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Mama – Mama – I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.
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The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
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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.
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I was born black and female.
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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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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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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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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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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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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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Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.
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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
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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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It’s dangerous, son.’ ‘What’s dangerous?’ ‘When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.
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Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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