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Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.

Lorraine Hansberry

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY

Children Mean Struggle
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
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 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
Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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Pieces Protest
Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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Acceptance Children Inspirational
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
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
One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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Bread Enough Food One
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 look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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Finals Stupidity Triumph
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
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
I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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Eggs First Want
That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
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Eccentric Mean Natural
Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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Heaven Talking

Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.

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