It is difficult for the American mind to adjust to the realization that the Rhetts and the Scarletts … - Lorraine Hansberry

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Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.

Lorraine Hansberry

It is difficult for the American mind to adjust to the realization that the Rhetts and the Scarletts were as much monsters as the keepers of Buchenwald-they just dressed more attractively.

Justice, Diversity, Mind, Scarletts, Dressed, Realization

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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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. . . Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non- violent. . . . They must harass, debate, petition, boycott, sing hymns, pray on steps--and shoot from their windows when the racists come cruising through their communities. . . . The acceptance of our condition is the only form of extremism which discredits us before our children [ellipses in source].

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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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Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so - doubly dynamic - to be young, gifted and black.

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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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Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.

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Peter Weir

Various studios are still shooting on film with digital grain and the DI negatives, it's not ideal. We should really be all film or all digital. But that being said, the old way of graining in the camera, now you can make changes like a painter. It's dangerous because you can ruin the film, you can over-fiddle. We've all seen films and gone 'what the hell is that?'

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C. S. Lewis

Not my idea of God, but God. Not my idea of H. , but H. Yes, and also not my idea of my neighbour, but my neighbour. For don't we often make this mistake as regards people who are still alive -- who are with us in the same room? Talking and acting not to the man himself but to the picture -- almost the précis -- we've made of him in our own minds? And he has to depart from it pretty widely before we even notice the fact.

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Rajneesh

Here, start living moment to moment totally and intensely, joyfully and playfully — and you will see that nothing goes out of control; that your intelligence becomes sharper; that you become younger; that your love becomes deeper. And when you go out into the world, wherever you go, spread life, playfulness, joy, as far away as possible — to every nook and corner of the earth.

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All laws and philosophy merely tell us what should be done, but they do not provide the strength to do it.

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