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Maya Angelou Quotes:

Ocupation: Author

Life: April 4, 1928 - May 28, 2014

Birthday: April 4

Death: May 28

Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where formerly he was not even allowed to vote. We were enlarged by tears of pride as we saw Nelson Mandela's former prison guards invited, courteously, by him to watch from the front rows his inauguration.

- Maya Angelou

source: 'His Day Is Done' - Poem in Tribute to Nelson Mandela, delivered December 2013

topic: Leadership, Wisdom, Country, Mandela S, Prison Guards, Inauguration

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