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I didn't make this world! It was given to me this way.
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Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.
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I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.
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I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!
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Children see things very well sometimes — and idealists even better.
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Our Southside is a place apart: each piece of our living is a protest.
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Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women.
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Don't get up. Just sit a while and think. Never be afraid to sit a while and think.
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American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
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Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it's money. I guess the world really do change.
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It is still yesterday in Africa. It will take millions of tomorrows to rectify what has been done here.
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I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.
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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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When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists — nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.
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Eventually it comes to you: the thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
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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 to make them dreams seem worthwhile.
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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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Ah, I like the look of packing crates! A household in preparation for a journey!... Something full of the flow of life, do you understand? Movement, progress.
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The grim possibility is that she who 'hides her brains' will, more than likely, end up with a mate who is only equal to a woman with 'hidden brains' or none at all.
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Yes... weep now, darling, weep. Let us both weep. That is the first thing: to let ourselves feel again.... Then, tomorrow, we shall make something strong of this sorrow.
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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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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.
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Beneatha: You didn't tell us what Alaiyo means... for all I know, you might be calling me Little Idiot or something...... Asagai: It means... it means One for Whom Bread—Food—Is Not Enough.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
May 19, 1930
Died:
January 12, 1965
(aged 34)
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