Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
LORRAINE HANSBERRYAh, 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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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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[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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I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
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Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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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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I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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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.’
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Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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I happen to believe that most people – and this is where I differ from many of my contemporaries, or at least as they express themselves – I think that virtually every human being is dramatically interesting. Not only is he dramatically interesting, he is a creature of stature whoever he is.
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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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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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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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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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