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When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do you always do what you have to do.

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Dorothy Height
Age: 98 †
Born: 1912
Born: March 24
Died: 2010
Died: April 20
Educator
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Politician
Social Worker
Richmond
Virginia
Dorothy Irene Height
Dr Dorothy I. Height
Always
Seldom
Woman
Black

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