Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.James A. Baldwin
The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
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Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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