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“Sometimes your dearest friend whom you reveal most of your secrets to becomes so deadly and unfriendly without knowing that they were not really your friend.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“What a desperate, pathetic fool I was. Time after time, my "friends" had shown me their true colors. Yet, I still wanted to believe they were sorry for causing me pain. p. 128”
― Jodee Blanco, Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story

tags: bullying, fake-friends, friendship, judgement, outcasts

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“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

tags: home, identity, leaving, life, moving-on, past, travel

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“I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: africa, africans, amorous, apartheid, attraction, black-people, color, common-sense, face, falling-in-love, fancy, human-beings, intelligence, knowledge, liking, love, memories, memory, michael-bassey-johnson, nigerians, race, wisdom, wise, wise-men, wise-people

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“Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.”
― Shannon L. Alder