One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which … - Lorraine Hansberry

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Everyone was so anti-wanting to be anything else. I guess a lot of bands say that but I think, for us, that notion - combined with our musical influences - ended up making us uncategorizable.

Lorraine Hansberry

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

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Everyone was so anti-wanting to be anything else. I guess a lot of bands say that but I think, for us, that notion - combined with our musical influences - ended up making us uncategorizable.

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A learned woman is thought to be a comet that bodes mischief whenever it appears.

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Thus will we deal with life, my little help-meet. Will we not, eh? What though it blink at us like an owl that is blinded by the sun, we will yet force it to smile.

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All living creatures are sparks from the radiation of God’s brilliance, emerging from God like the rays of the sun.

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