If I’m America’s poet, or one of them, then I want to be in people’s hands. All people’s hands. People who would never buy a book. – Quote Cookie

If I’m America’s poet, or one of them, then I want to be in people’s hands. All people’s hands. People who would never buy a book.

- Maya Angelou

Random Fact

At the age of seven, Maya Angelou was sexually abused by her mother’s boyfriend. She stopped speaking for five years as a result of the trauma.

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