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American writer and poet Maya Angelou added an important corollary in saying "How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!"
Terry Newell: In Need of Great Americans Terry Newell 2011
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For my own organization, the National Council of Negro Women, Black History Month is a time to celebrate our incredibly rich and wondrous past by remembering amazing accomplishments and even more amazing she-roes and heroes who achieved against the odds to make the impossible now a commonplace reality.
Avis Jones-DeWeever: Celebrating Black Motherhood and Families Avis Jones-DeWeever 2011
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American writer and poet Maya Angelou added an important corollary in saying "How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!"
Terry Newell: In Need of Great Americans Terry Newell 2011
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For my own organization, the National Council of Negro Women, Black History Month is a time to celebrate our incredibly rich and wondrous past by remembering amazing accomplishments and even more amazing she-roes and heroes who achieved against the odds to make the impossible now a commonplace reality.
Avis Jones-DeWeever: Celebrating Black Motherhood and Families Avis Jones-DeWeever 2011
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Patrick McMullan = = Photo - EUGENE MIM/PatrickMcMullan. com = = Actresses Tracee Ellis Ross, host A crowd that included actresses Gabrielle Union, Lynn Whitfield and Kerry Washington celebrated the magazine's 40th anniversary at the Mandarin Oriental on Monday and paid tribute to "she-roes."
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“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!”
Quotes by and about Women | Angkor Wat Apsara & Devata: Khmer Women in Divine Context 2009
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To face the attack dogs, to face the fire-hoses, to face the billy-clubs ��� these heroes and she-roes came marching boldly out of church-houses.
Van Jones: Spiritual Activism: The Religious Left Fights Back ��� On All Fronts 2008
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Fortunately, the country has an abundance of such heroes or she-roes.
Van Jones: Vanity Fair: The Unbearable Whiteness Of Green 2008
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To face the attack dogs, to face the fire-hoses, to face the billy-clubs, these heroes and she-roes came marching boldly out of church-houses.
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NAGIN: My biggest problem right now is I have several problems right now that are big, trying to get the FEMA dollars flowing down through the state to the city of New Orleans so that we can pay firefighters and policemen who are absolute heroes and she-roes (ph).
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