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That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.

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
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
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
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
Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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Dream Inspirational Love
American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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Disarm Thinking
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
Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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Groups Oppressed
One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.
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Eye Feelings Heart
Ah, I like the look of packing crates! A household in preparation for a journey! … Something full of the flow of life, do you understand? Movement, progress…
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Journey Moving Preparation
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
I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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Eggs First Want
That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Eccentric Mean Natural
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
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 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

That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.

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