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

Lorraine Hansberry

American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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Disarm Thinking
Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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Pieces Protest
I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.
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Eggs First Want
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
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
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
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
Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women
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Groups Oppressed
Mama – Mama – I want so many things… I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.
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Crazy Mama Want
Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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Life Men Violence
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
Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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Age Balls Writing
I happen to believe that most people – and this is where I differ from many of my contemporaries, or at least as they express themselves – I think that virtually every human being is dramatically interesting. Not only is he dramatically interesting, he is a creature of stature whoever he is.
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Believe People Thinking
One for whom bread- food- is not enough.
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Bread Enough Food One
That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.
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Eccentric Mean Natural

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