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

Lorraine Hansberry

I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Destiny Stars Thinking
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
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
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
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
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
American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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Disarm Thinking
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
Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Life Men Violence
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
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
I was born black and female.
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African American Black Female
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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Brain Intelligence Women
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.’
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Children Dream Everyone Eye
Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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Acceptance Children Inspirational

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