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I am where I am because of the bridges that I crossed. Sojourner Truth was a bridge. Harriet Tubman was a bridge. Ida B. Wells was a bridge. Madam C. J. Walker was a bridge. Fannie Lou Hamer was a bridge.
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Oprah Winfrey, as quoted in Chicken Soup for the African American Woman's Soul (2006) by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and Lisa Nichols, p. 1

 

Harriet Tubman

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