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“Rat trap”--yes that’s all it is. I remember just as well the day me and Big Walter moved in here. Hadn’t been married but two weeks and wasn’t planning on living here no more than a year. We was going to set away, little by little, don’t you know, and buy a little place out in Morgan Park. We had even picked out the house. Looks right dumpy today.
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Big Walter used to say, he’d get right wet in the eyes sometimes, lean his head back with the water standing in his eyes and say. “Seem like God didn’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams--but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worth while.” He could talk like that, don’t you know.
Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, Samuel French, 1984, pp. 35-36.
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