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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.

James Baldwin

The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
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Forget Hero Madness Man Remember World
Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford.
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Afford Grief Guilt Hurt Luxury One Liner
Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it.
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Crown Inspirational Pay Wear
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
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Battle Beginning Grow Love Thinking War
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.
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Freedom Independence Liberty Patriotism People
Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?
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Burn Funny House Humour Integrated
We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them.
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Acceptance Commit Crime Lie
To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
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Consicious Country Negro Reative Time
It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.
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Mirror People Person Truth
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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Beautiful History Terrible
Those kids aren’t dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don’t get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.
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Children Kid School Slave Smart Teaching
Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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Inspirational Interrupt Sky
Please 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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Believe Endure Humanity Inferior Remember
Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
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Colour Human Naked Sex
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
There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves.
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Deep Human Nature Life One Liner Truth

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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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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