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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

American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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Disarm Thinking
One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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Bread Enough Food One
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
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
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
Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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Age Balls Writing
Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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Pieces Protest
Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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Life Men Violence
I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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Eggs First Want
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
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
Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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Acceptance Children Inspirational
This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn’t seem to give an answer, we create one.
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Giving Men Mind

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