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I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.

Lorraine Hansberry

Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually — without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts? This is what I puzzle about.
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Doubt Giving Struggle
I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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Care Caring Energy
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 thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
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Children Mean Struggle
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
[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 want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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Eggs First Want
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
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
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
Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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Dream Inspirational Love
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 was born black and female.
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African American Black Female
Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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Heaven Talking
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
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

I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.

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