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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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  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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  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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  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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  One for whom bread- food- is not enough.

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  Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

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  Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!

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

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  I want to fly! I want to touch the sun!” “Finish your eggs first.

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  I think that the glorious thing about the human race is that it does change the world — constantly. The world or ‘life’ may seem to more often overwhelm the human being’s capacity for struggling against being overwhelmed which is remarkable and exhilarating.

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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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  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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  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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  Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women

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  I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!

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

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