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Start: WALTER: You know what I was thin...

A Raisin in the Sun

Walter Lee Younger Ruth Younger

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WALTER: You know what I was thinking ‘bout in the bathroom this morning--?

RUTH: No.

WALTER: How come you always try to be so pleasant?

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RUTH: There are colored men who do things.

WALTER: No thanks to the colored woman.

RUTH: (boiling over) Well, being a colored woman I guess I can’t help myself none!

Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, Samuel French, 1984, pp.23-26.

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