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When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists – nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.

Lorraine Hansberry

[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

Circles Mirages Thinking
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
I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Destiny Stars Thinking
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
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
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
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.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Diversity Justice Mind
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
I was born black and female.
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African American Black Female
Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Life Men Violence
Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Dream Inspirational Love
Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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Acceptance Children Inspirational
Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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Groups Oppressed
I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific. Universality, I think, emerges from truthful identity of what is.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Believe Thinking Writing
That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Eccentric Mean Natural
When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists – nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Curiosity Earth Men

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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