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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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More Lorraine Hansberry Quotes

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  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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  I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific. Universality, I think, emerges from truthful identity of what is.

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  BelieveThinkingWriting
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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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  EyeFeelingsHeart
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  I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.

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  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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  FutureSometimesWaiting
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  [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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  CirclesMiragesThinking
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  Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women

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  GroupsOppressed
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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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  BelievePeopleThinking
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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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  FeministIgnoranceRoots
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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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  JourneyMovingPreparation
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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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  DestinyStarsThinking
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  Everybody talking ’bout heaven ain’t going there!

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

  LORRAINE HANSBERRY
  InspirationalLoveRaisins
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  Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.

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  AgeBallsWriting
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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.

  LORRAINE HANSBERRY
  RaceStruggleThinking
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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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  ChildrenDreamEveryoneEye
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  I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!

  LORRAINE HANSBERRY
  FinalsStupidityTriumph
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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
  BeautifulWish
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  It is difficult for the American mind to adjust to the realization that the Rhetts and the Scarletts were as much monsters as the keepers of Buchenwald-they just dressed more attractively.

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  DiversityJusticeMind
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  Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.

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

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  DisarmThinking
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  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 TimeUsedWorld
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  One for whom bread- food- is not enough.

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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–

  LORRAINE HANSBERRY
  DreamHoldingWanted
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  This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn’t seem to give an answer, we create one.

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  GivingMenMind
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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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  CrazyMamaWant
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  That’s what being eccentric means–being natural.

  LORRAINE HANSBERRY
  EccentricMeanNatural