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[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.

Lorraine Hansberry

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
Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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Life Men Violence
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 was born black and female.
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African American Black Female
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
Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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Dream Inspirational Love
Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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Heaven Talking
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

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
One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Eye Feelings Heart
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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Brain Intelligence Women
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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Race Struggle Thinking
I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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Finals Stupidity Triumph
American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Disarm Thinking
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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Feminist Ignorance Roots

[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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[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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