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The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

Lorraine Hansberry

Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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Acceptance Children Inspirational
Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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Pieces Protest
That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
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Eccentric Mean Natural
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
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
Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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Groups Oppressed
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
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
I was born black and female.
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African American Black Female
I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.
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Destiny Stars Thinking
I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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Finals Stupidity Triumph
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
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
Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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Life Men Violence
One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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Bread Enough Food One
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

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