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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.
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Doubt Giving Struggle
It’s dangerous, son.’ ‘What’s dangerous?’ ‘When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.
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House Men Son
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 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
It is difficult for the American mind to adjust to the realization that the Rhetts and the Scarletts were as much monsters as the keepers of Buchenwald-they just dressed more attractively.
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Diversity Justice Mind
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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Black Gifted Young
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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Feminist Ignorance Roots
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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Journey Moving Preparation
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.
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Being Alone Loneliness Running
I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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Eggs First Want
Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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Pieces Protest
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
I was born black and female.
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African American Black Female
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
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
Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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Dream Inspirational Love
I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific. Universality, I think, emerges from truthful identity of what is.
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Believe Thinking Writing
Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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Groups Oppressed
I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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Finals Stupidity Triumph
Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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Life Men Violence
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
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
Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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Acceptance Children Inspirational
[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
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
That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
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Eccentric Mean Natural

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

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