“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

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Source: This is actually from Zora Neale Hurston, <i>Dust Tracks On the Road,</i> though it is widely attributed to Ms. Angelou's book, <i>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.</i>

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American author and poet 1928–2014

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