"I used to want the words ‘She…" — Katherine Dunham

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かつては墓石に「彼女は試みた」と刻みたかった。今は「彼女はやり遂げた」と刻みたい。

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“Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out”

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