On Sesame Street, Bove has introduced thousands of children to sign language and issues surrounding the Deaf community. The character owns a very playful dog, Barkley. Her role on Sesame Street lasted from 1971 to 2003, making it the longest running role for a Deaf person in television history. Also, in her role in Sesame Street, she increased the knowledge of Deaf culture and made it known that being Deaf was not shameful.
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“What are you now? If we could touch one another,
if these our separate entities could come to grips,
clenched like a Chinese puzzle . . . yesterday
I stood in a crowded street that was live with people,
and no one spoke a word, and the morning shone.
Everyone silent, moving. . . . Take my hand. Speak to me.”
—Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)