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Maya Angelou
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He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack. ✨ Maya Angelou (2012). The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou, p.169, Modern Library
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