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

~Lorraine Hansberry

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The whole realm of morality and ethics is something that has escaped the attention of women, by and large. And it needs the attention of intellectual women most desperately.

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A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

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The why of why we are here is an intrigue for adolescents; the how is what must command the living.

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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 and generations.

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Mine is, after all, the generation that had come to maturity drinking in the forebodings of the Silones, Koestlers, and Richard Wrights. It had left us ill-prepared for decisions that had to be made in our own time about Algeria, Birmingham, or the Bay of Pigs.

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I have long since passed that period when I felt personal discomfort at the sight of an ill-dressed or illiterate Negro. Social awareness has taught me where to lay the blame.

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Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

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

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: May 19th, 1930

Died: January 12th, 1965

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