Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.Maya Angelou
“Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.”
Poet, memoirist · 1928 – 2014
American poet and memoirist best known for I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969).
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