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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

Lorraine Hansberry

American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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Disarm Thinking
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
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
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
I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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Eggs First 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
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
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
I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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Care Caring Energy
Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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Groups Oppressed
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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Dream Inspirational Love
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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Children Dream Everyone Eye
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
One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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Bread Enough Food One
Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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Pieces Protest

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

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