The great poet and author Maya Angelou didn't discover poetry until her mentor took her to the tiny library at her school and challenged her to read every book in the room.

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"I won't lose the Maya culture nor language, " he tells us through a translator.

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When I first started reading TWM I immediately thought of Maya Angelou's "Won't Take Nothing for my Journey Now".

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