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 BALDWINYouth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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If I am not what you say I am, then you are not who you think you are.
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Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.
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People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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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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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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Love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don’t panic now.
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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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Youth must be the worst time in anybody’s life.
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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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There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.
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