Everybody’s journey is individual.
JAMES BALDWINYou have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.
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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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I often wonder what I’d do if there weren’t any books in the world.
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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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You write in order to change the world, if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
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Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.
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No man is a devil in his own mind.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
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Love was a country he knew nothing about.
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