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Everybody’s journey is individual.

James Baldwin

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.
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Believe Cheat Destiny Master People Strong
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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Children Imitate Listen Parents
There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.
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Pain People Suffering
People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.
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Light People Treat Trust
Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.
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Coward Fools Man People Truth
The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
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Situation Threat Victim Women
No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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DAngry Heart Imagination Purity
I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Goodness Honesty Man One Liner Self Love Writing
There are people in the world for whom “coming along” is a perpetual process, people who are destined never to arrive.
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Arrive People Perpetual World
Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.
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Black Lives Matter Colour Human One Liner Politics Reality
It is easy to proclaim all souls equal in the sight of God; it is hard to make men equal on earth in the sight of men.
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Claim Earth Equality God Men Sight Soul
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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Absolute Inspirational Limitation Success
There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Deep Human Nature Life One Liner Truth
I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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Book One Liner Wonder World
It’s a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.
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Dreamss Love Magic Miracle One Liner
History is not a procession of illustrious people. It’s about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
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Happen History Million Past People

Everybody’s journey is individual.

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