Maya Angelou Quotes On Race

“it is too dangerous,” she says. We are only as blind as we want to be. When great trees fall in forests, small things recoil into silence, their senses eroded beyond fear.

Least best is falling out of love. Abraham lincoln ( more abraham lincoln quotes) racism is man’s gravest threat to man — the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. Second best is being in love.

She told the advocate in baton rouge that although she thinks racism is still extremely ugly in america, things are better than when she wrote i know why the caged bird sings in 1969.

“forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.”. ““i believe that words are things. When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. I got my own back.