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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.

Lorraine Hansberry

Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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Acceptance Children Inspirational
I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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Care Caring Energy
I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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Finals Stupidity Triumph
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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Children Dream Men
I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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Eggs First Want
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
Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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Pieces Protest
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
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
Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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Life Men Violence
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
Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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Heaven Talking
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
The grim possibility is that she who ‘hides her brains’ will, more than likely, end up with a mate who is only equal to a woman with ‘hidden brains’ or none at all.
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Brain Intelligence Women
It’s dangerous, son.’ ‘What’s dangerous?’ ‘When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.
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House Men Son
That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
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Eccentric Mean Natural

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