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Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.

But bear in mind, language is man's way of communicating with his fellow man and it is language alone which separates him from the lower animals.

She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

— Mrs. Bertha Flowers (paraphrased by Angelou) · Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), Chapter 15

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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