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

Lorraine Hansberry

Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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Groups Oppressed
Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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Dream Inspirational Love
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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House Men Son
American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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Disarm Thinking
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
I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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Care Caring Energy
Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!
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Heaven Talking
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
Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.
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Acceptance Children Inspirational
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
Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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Life Men Violence
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
[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
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
One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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Bread Enough Food One

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

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