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However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.
I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact.
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Owen Hart, Entertainer (1965) |
Joseph Joubert, Writer (1754) |
Edwin Land, Inventor (1909) |
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