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It’s dangerous, son.’ ‘What’s dangerous?’ ‘When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.

Lorraine Hansberry

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
American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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Disarm Thinking
[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
Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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Acceptance Children Inspirational
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
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
Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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Heaven Talking
Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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Life Men Violence
I was born black and female.
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African American Black Female
Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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Pieces Protest
One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.
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Eye Feelings Heart
I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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Finals Stupidity Triumph
Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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Dream Inspirational Love
Big Walter used to say, he’d get right wet in the eyes sometimes, lean his head back with the water standing in his eyes and say, ‘Seem like God didn’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worth while.’
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Children Dream Everyone Eye
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
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

It’s dangerous, son.’ ‘What’s dangerous?’ ‘When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.

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