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Seems like God don’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.

Lorraine Hansberry

Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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Age Balls Writing
American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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Disarm Thinking
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
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
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
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 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
Beneatha: You didn’t tell us what Alaiyo means… for all I know, you might be calling me Little Idiot or something… … Asagai: It means… it means One for Whom Bread–Food–Is Not Enough.
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Calling Littles Mean
I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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Eggs First Want
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
Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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Pieces Protest
I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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Care Caring Energy
That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
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Eccentric Mean Natural
I was born black and female.
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African American Black Female
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

Seems like God don’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.

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Seems like God don’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.

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