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The Best Short Stories by Black Writers: 1899 - 1967

by Langston Hughes

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“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

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“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”
― Pablo Picasso

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“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions

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“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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“All that you touch
You Change.

All that you Change
Changes you.

The only lasting truth
is Change.

God
is Change.”
― Octavia E. Butler

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