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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.
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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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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Everybody talking 'bout heaven ain't going there!
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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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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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It's dangerous, son.' 'What's dangerous?' 'When a man goes outside his house to look for 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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