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You tell those newspaper people that they may be smart, but I'm smarter. They deal with words. Some folks say that words were made to reveal thoughts. That ain't so. Words were made to conceal thought.

Mary Ellen Pleasant

Mary Ellen Pleasant

Mary Ellen Pleasant

Born: 1814

Died: January 4, 1904 (aged 90)

Bio: Mary Ellen Pleasant was a 19th-century African American entrepreneur widely known as Mistress Pleasant. She identified herself as "a capitalist by profession" in the 1890 United States Census. People called her "Mammy" Pleasant but she did not approve.

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