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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love.

Lorraine Hansberry

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  Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.

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  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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  There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.

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  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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  I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.

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

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  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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  I was born black and female.

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  Mama – Mama – I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.

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  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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  One for whom bread- food- is not enough.

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  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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  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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  Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?

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  What you ain’t never understood is that I ain’t got nothing, don’t own nothing, ain’t never really wanted nothing that wasn’t for you. There ain’t nothing as precious to me…There ain’t nothing worth holding on to, money, dreams, nothing else–

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