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"Some say that words are made to reveal feelings; I say that words are made to conceal them.”

— Mary Ellen Pleasant

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"I am a whole theatre in myself." I cant like my the right

“I was a girl full of smartness who let books alone and studied men and women a good deal … I have always noticed that when I have something to say, people listen. They never go to sleep on me."

“You know my cause well. My cause was the cause of freedom and equality for myself and for my people and I’d rather be a corpse than a coward."

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