Literature has been a treacherous site for black Americans because literary production has been so tied with the project of proving our humanity through the act of writing.

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• Vincent Van Gogh

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• Walt Disney

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  Thursday, Dec 05, 1901
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• Niccolo Machiavelli

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• Deepak Chopra

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• Heraclitus

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• Maya Angelou

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• Carrie Fisher

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• Stephen Covey

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  Monday, Oct 24, 1932
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• Lucy Larcom

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• Francis Of Assisi

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• Sun Tzu

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  Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
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• Will Rogers

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  Tuesday, Nov 04, 1879
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• Henry Ford

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• Paulo Coelho

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