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"OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me"

- Maya Lin

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This quote is written / told by Maya Lin somewhere between October 5, 1959 and today. He/she was a famous Architect from USA. The author also have 43 other quotes.

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