Quote by Maya Angelou
For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a histori

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. – Maya Angelou

Other quotes by Maya Angelou

The sadness of the womens movement is that they dont allow the necessity of love. See, I dont personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed. – Maya Angelou

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Love
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The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. – Maya Angelou

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Home
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Black History
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. – Frederick Douglass

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Black History

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. – W.E.B. DuBois

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Black History

We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers. Our abundance has brought us neither peace of mind nor serenity of spirit. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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Black History

Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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Black History

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The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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And then before going back for my sophomore year, I decided to change my major to arts and sciences, and my dad cut a deal with me: He said if Id quit school hed pay my rent for the next three years, as if I were in school. – Sarah Silverman

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Ultimately we may still ask, why cant humans design a perfect society? – Robert Shea

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