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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?

Lorraine Hansberry

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
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
American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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Disarm Thinking
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.
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Calling Littles Mean
Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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Dream Inspirational Love
Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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Heaven Talking
[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
I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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Finals Stupidity Triumph
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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Children Dream Men
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
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
Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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Age Balls Writing
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
Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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Life Men Violence
I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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Eggs First Want
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

Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?

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