attacker, she felt that her words had killed that man. She fell into silence and did not speak for five years. As a teenager, Maya’s love for the arts won her a scholarship to study dance and drama at San Francisco’s Labor School. At 14, she dropped out to become San Francisco’s first African-American female cable car conductor. She later finished high school, giving birth to her son, Guy a few weeks after graduation. As a young single mother, she supported her son by working as a waitress and…
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