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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

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
Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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Age Balls Writing
I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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Eggs First Want
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
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
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
Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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Heaven Talking
One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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Bread Enough Food One
Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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Life Men Violence
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
Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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Pieces Protest
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
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
American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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Disarm Thinking
That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
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Eccentric Mean Natural
Seems like God don’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.
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Children Dream Men

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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