“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”

— Maya Angelou · Courage quote

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. — Maya Angelou quote card
Poet, memoirist · 1928 – 2014

American poet and memoirist best known for I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969).

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