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You think you may not be heard. Speak anyway.

Maya Angelou

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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Marguerite Annie Johnson
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Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.
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I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child's mind--seven and a half years old--I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years.
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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
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