When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, tryi — Maya Angelou
When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, tryi — Maya Angelou
When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, tryi — Maya Angelou
When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, tryi — Maya Angelou
When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, tryi — Maya Angelou
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When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.

— Maya Angelou
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