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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.

— Lorraine Hansberry

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I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful and that which is love.

To Be Young, Gifted and Black (1969)

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

A Raisin in the Sun (1959)

Moreover, because this is so, I wish others to live for generations and generations and generations.

To Be Young, Gifted and Black (1969)

I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!

A Raisin in the Sun (1959)

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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