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

Lorraine Hansberry

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.
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Giving Men Mind
Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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Pieces Protest
American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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Disarm Thinking
Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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Groups Oppressed
When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists – nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.
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Curiosity Earth Men
There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
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Inspirational Love Raisins
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
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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Future Sometimes Waiting
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
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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Brain Intelligence Women
I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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Eggs First Want
I was born black and female.
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African American Black Female
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
I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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Care Caring Energy
Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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Acceptance Children Inspirational
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

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

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