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Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.

Lorraine Hansberry

Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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Age Balls Writing
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
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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Eye Feelings Heart
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
Mama – Mama – I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.
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Crazy Mama Want
American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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Disarm Thinking
Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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Heaven Talking
[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 was born black and female.
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African American Black Female
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
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
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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Beautiful Wish
Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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Dream Inspirational Love
Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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Life Men Violence
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
I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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Finals Stupidity Triumph

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