"Never be afraid to sit a while and think."

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Source : Lorraine Hansberry (2011). “A Raisin in the Sun”, p.119, Vintage

Lorraine Hansberry

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“How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?”
“I'm a big guy, but I'm really simple with the food. I'll hit the In-N-Out or just the regular buffets.”
“I wrote a lot of poetry in the last two years of high school, all about the same girl I was in love with. That was pretty awful. Did you know that in poetry, every line does not need to rhyme?”

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“I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.”
“Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.”

Source : Samuel Prout, Rudolph Ackermann (1838). “Hints on Light and Shadow, Composition, Etc: As Applicable to Landscape Painting”, p.7
“Good access to a doctor and a drugstore when you first have a problem can avoid a lot of cost and heartache later.”
“To be taught to readâ€”what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speakâ€”but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to thinkâ€”nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.”
“I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star.”

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