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

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

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  The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

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  One for whom bread- food- is not enough.

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