"The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely."

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Source : "To Be Young, Gifted and Black : Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words" by Lorraine Hansberry, (p. 137), 1969.

Lorraine Hansberry

#Inspiring Quotes #Happiness Quotes #Success Quotes

“It has not been a good day. I lost my glasses early this morning and I had to go buy a pair of 79 dollar reading glasses today. 79 bucks. You can literally get them at Costco, three-for-20.”
“It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.”
“Boris Vasilievich was the only top-class player of his generation who played gambits regularly and without fear ... Over a period of 30 years he did not lose a single game with the King's Gambit, and among those defeated were numerous strong players of all generations, from Averbakh, Bronstein and Fischer, to Seirawan.”
“It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.”
“Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.”

Source : Eric Peter Nash, Ansel Adams (1995). “Ansel Adams: The Spirit of Wild Places”, Todtri Book Pub
“I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I'm not a tourist.”
“Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.”
“If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed.”

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