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

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Lorraine Hansberry writing in her journal, May 1, 1962. In To Be Young Gifted and Black: Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words. Adapted by Robert Nemiroff, with an introduction by James Baldwin, p.137. NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1969.