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Valinda
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So many black families spend all of their time trying to fix the problems of the past. That is the curse of being black and poor, and it is a curse that follows you from generation to generation. My mother calls it “the black tax.” Because
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“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
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“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”
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“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― Hamlet
― Hamlet
“The Seven Social Sins are:
Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.
From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
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Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.
From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
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“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
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Valinda’s 2025 Year in Books
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106 books
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62 friends
333 books
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399 friends
147 books
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123 friends
41 books
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317 books
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13 books
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433 friends
300 books
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115 books
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