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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
American
Poet
Born:
Apr 4
,
1928
Died:
May 28
,
2014
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