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When nobody speaks your name, or even knows it, you, knowing it, must be the first to speak it.
Marlon Riggs
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Marlon Riggs
Age: 37 †
Born: 1957
Born: February 3
Died: 1994
Died: April 5
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Film Director
Film Producer
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Fort Worth
Texas
Marlon Troy Riggs
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