What you ain't never understood is that I ain't got nothing, don't own nothing, ain't never really wanted … - Lorraine Hansberry

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Women are dealing with the same thing: they're dealing with expectations about how they're supposed to look and how they're supposed to interact with men. I think we're all trying to figure it all out, especially when we're teenagers, but I think the key is to listen and empathize with one another.

Lorraine Hansberry

What you ain't never understood is that I ain't got nothing, don't own nothing, ain't never really wanted nothing that wasn't for you. There ain't nothing as precious to me. . . There ain't nothing worth holding on to, money, dreams, nothing else--

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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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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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