Maya Angelou · every age
What was Maya Angelou doing at 8?
Mute for five years as a child; the voice of a nation at 64
- c. 1936
Stopped speaking for almost five years, at 8
After a trauma she later wrote about in her first memoir. She believed her voice had killed a man.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Others at 8
Portrait: Photo: Clinton Library (1993), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons · source
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