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Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it’s money. I guess the world really do change.

Lorraine Hansberry

Sometimes, I can see the future stretched out in front of me – just as plain as day. The future hanging over there at the edge of my days. Just waiting for me.
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Future Sometimes Waiting
That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
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Eccentric Mean Natural
Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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Life Men Violence
Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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Groups Oppressed
American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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Disarm Thinking
I happen to believe that most people – and this is where I differ from many of my contemporaries, or at least as they express themselves – I think that virtually every human being is dramatically interesting. Not only is he dramatically interesting, he is a creature of stature whoever he is.
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Believe People 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
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
I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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Care Caring Energy
[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
There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.
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Inspirational Love Raisins
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
Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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Pieces Protest
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
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
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

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