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I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.

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
I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Beautiful Wish
[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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Circles Mirages Thinking
Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Pieces Protest
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
I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Destiny Stars Thinking
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.’
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

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

Acceptance Children Inspirational
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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Future Sometimes Waiting
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Children Mean Struggle
Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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Life Men Violence
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
One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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Bread Enough Food One
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
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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Being Alone Loneliness Running
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

I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.

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