Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did … - Lorraine Hansberry

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Larousse Gastronomique has always been the first and last word on classic European techniques and recipes. I love that it has expanded its reach to cover world cuisines and modern culinary innovations, making it more indispensable than ever.

Lorraine Hansberry

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.

Children, Dream, Make, Man, Men, Worthwhile

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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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