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If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.


Maya Angelou

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MAYA ANGELOU I suggest that the great art belongs to all people, all the time--that indeed it is made for the peo...
MAYA ANGELOU The Maya Angelou Research Center on Minority Health has a national conference every other year. This...
MAYA ANGELOU Those of us who have gathered here, ... we owe something from this minute on, so this gathering is n...
MAYA ANGELOU Mrs. Parks is for me probably what the Statute of Liberty was for immigrants. She stood for the futu...
MAYA ANGELOU Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just anoth...
MAYA ANGELOU I'm not going anywhere. I came here to say something, and I'm not leaving until I'm finished.
MAYA ANGELOU Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence--neither speed up nor slow down, a...
MAYA ANGELOU Someone was hurt before you; wronged before you; beaten before you; humiliated before you; raped bef...
MAYA ANGELOU I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be ...
MAYA ANGELOU See, you don’t have to think about doing the right thing if you are for the right thing then you...
MAYA ANGELOU The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.
MAYA ANGELOU There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
MAYA ANGELOU You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
MAYA ANGELOU Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
MAYA ANGELOU You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead ...
MAYA ANGELOU Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
MAYA ANGELOU I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wante...
MAYA ANGELOU I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to ...
MAYA ANGELOU When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
MAYA ANGELOU All God's children need traveling shoes.
MAYA ANGELOU Look at my life. I'm floating like mercury around the earth. My footprints shine with stardust. All ...
MAYA ANGELOU Here on the pulse of this new day,/ You may have the grace to look up and out/ And into your sister'...
MAYA ANGELOU I’ve learned that making a "living" is not the same thing as making a "life."
MAYA ANGELOU this is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing.
MAYA ANGELOU While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone ...
MAYA ANGELOU Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poe...
MAYA ANGELOU The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,
of things unknown, but longed for still,
and h...
MAYA ANGELOU I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient.
MAYA ANGELOU Segregation shaped me; education liberated me.
MAYA ANGELOU I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.
MAYA ANGELOU You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - i...
MAYA ANGELOU The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same t...
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