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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.

Lorraine Hansberry

Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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Pieces Protest
Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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Acceptance Children Inspirational
I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific. Universality, I think, emerges from truthful identity of what is.
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Believe Thinking Writing
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
Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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Groups Oppressed
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
[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 think that the glorious thing about the human race is that it does change the world — constantly. The world or ‘life’ may seem to more often overwhelm the human being’s capacity for struggling against being overwhelmed which is remarkable and exhilarating.
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Race Struggle Thinking
American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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Disarm Thinking
Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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Dream Inspirational Love
I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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Finals Stupidity Triumph
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
That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
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Eccentric Mean Natural
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
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

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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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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