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You don't have to go to the kings and queens of the earth - I think the Greeks and Elizabethans did this because it was a logical concept - but every human being is in enormous conflict about something, even if it's how to get to work in the morning and all of that.

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Men continue to misinterpret the second-rate status of women as implying a privileged status for themselves; heterosexuals think the same way about homosexuals; gentiles about Jews; whites about blacks; haves about have-nots.

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If, by some miracle, women should not ever utter a single protest against their condition, there would still exist among men those who could not endure in peace until her liberation had been achieved.

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I think it is about time that equipped women began to take on some of the ethical questions which a male-dominated culture has produced and dissect and analyze them quite to pieces in a serious fashion. It is time that 'half the human race' had something to say about the nature of its existence.

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There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

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I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.

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Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.

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As of today, if I am asked abroad if I am a free citizen of the United States of America, I must only say what is true: No.

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I feel that women - without wishing to foster any strict separatist notions, homo or hetero - indeed have a need for their own publications and organizations. Our problems, our experiences as women are profoundly unique as compared to the other half of the human race.

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The problem in the world is the oppression of man by man; it this which threatens existence.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: May 19th, 1930

Died: January 12th, 1965

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