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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.
Lorraine Hansberry
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Lorraine Hansberry
Age: 34 †
Born: 1930
Born: May 19
Died: 1965
Died: January 12
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Lorraine Vivian 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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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 care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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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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Take away the violence and who will hear the man of peace?
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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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I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.
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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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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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That's what being eccentric means--being natural.
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It's dangerous, son.' 'What's dangerous?' 'When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.
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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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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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I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful and that which is love. Therefore, since I have known all of these things, I have found them to be reason enough and - I wish to live. Moreover, because this is so, I wish others to live for generations and generations and generations.
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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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It isn't a circle--it is simply a long line--as in geometry, you know, one that reaches into infinity. And because we cannot see the end--we also cannot see how it changes. And it is very odd by those who see the changes--who dream, who will not give up--are called idealists...and those who see only the circle we call them the realists!
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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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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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Everybody talking 'bout heaven ain't going there!
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