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

Lorraine Hansberry

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
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
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
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
Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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Heaven Talking
Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Life Men Violence
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
Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Age Balls Writing
I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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Finals Stupidity Triumph
One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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Bread Enough Food One
That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Eccentric Mean Natural
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
I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Care Caring Energy
I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Eggs First Want
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
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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Calling Littles Mean

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

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