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Marguerite “Maya” Johnson quotes

28 quotes spoken by or about Marguerite “Maya” Johnson, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book. Page 2 of 2.

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Sympathy is next to shit in the dictionary, and I can't even read.

Every person I knew had a hellish horror of being “called out of his name.”

And my seven-year-old world humpty-dumptied, never to be put back together again.

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