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Lorraine Hansberry

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
Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so – doubly dynamic – to be young, gifted and black.
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Black Gifted Young
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
Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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Pieces Protest
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
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
There may be women to emerge who will be able to formulate a new and possible concept that homosexual persecution and condemnation has at its roots not only social ignorance, but a philosophically active anti-feminist dogma.
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Feminist Ignorance Roots
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
One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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Bread Enough Food One
Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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Dream Inspirational Love
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
[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
Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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Groups Oppressed
I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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Finals Stupidity Triumph
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

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