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This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.

Robert Hayden

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Robert Hayden
Age: 66 †
Born: 1913
Born: August 4
Died: 1980
Died: February 25
Dancer
Lighting Designer
Performing Artist
Poet
University Teacher
Detroit
Michigan
Asa Bundy Sheffey
Robert Earl Hayden
Terrible
Liberty
Freedom
Beautiful
Earth
Thing
Usable
Men
Needful
Air

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