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There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.

Lorraine Hansberry

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
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
Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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Groups Oppressed
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
[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
That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
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Eccentric Mean Natural
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
American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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Disarm Thinking
I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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Finals Stupidity Triumph
What you ain’t never understood is that I ain’t got nothing, don’t own nothing, ain’t never really wanted nothing that wasn’t for you. There ain’t nothing as precious to me…There ain’t nothing worth holding on to, money, dreams, nothing else–
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Dream Holding Wanted
Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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Dream Inspirational Love
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
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
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
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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Believe People Thinking

There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.

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