People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.
JAMES BALDWINPlease try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity.
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark.
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.
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It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
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Artists are here to disturb the peace.
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