All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood. β¨ Maya Angelou (2012). The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou, p.20, Modern Library
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- He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his. β¨ Maya Angelou's Poem About Michael Jackson: 'We β¦ βΆ
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