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The Murchisons are honest-to-God-real-foe-rich colored people, and the only people in the world who ...

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Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When he’s done good and made things ...

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Write if you will: but write about the world as it is and as you think it ought to be and must be—if...

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Write if you will: but write about the world as it is and as you think it ought to be and must be—if...

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...I am the first to say that ours is a complex and difficult country and some of our complexities a...

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Cause sometimes it's hard to let the future begin!

A Raisin in the Sun

I know he's rich. He knows he's rich, too.

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

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

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of lonel...

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

I'm just tired of hearing about God all the time. What has He got to do with anything?... I'm not go...

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Write if you will: but write about the world as it is and as you think it ought to be and must be—if...

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A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of lonel...

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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 ...

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Mama, you don’t understand. It’s all a matter of ideas, and God is just one idea I don’t acept. It’s...

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A Raisin in the Sun

[Beneatha Younger:]... He said everybody ought to learn how to sit down and hate each other with goo...

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MAMA: You must not dislike people ’cause they well off, honey.BENEATHA: Why not? It makes just as mu...

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Lorraine Hansberry

Playwright

Born: 1930-05-19

Died: 1965-01-12

Lorraine Hansberry (19 May 1930 – 12 January 1965) was an American playwright.More