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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

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I don’t believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at. – Maya Angelou

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Sisters
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While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of mans humanity to man. – Maya Angelou

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Technology
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[E]very day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. – Maya Angelou

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Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. – Countess of Blessington

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This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to celebrate the similarities and not focus on the differences between people of color and not of color. – Lynn Swann

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I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. – Oprah Winfrey

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Black History

American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen. – Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, 1992

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The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. – Alan Watts

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We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly. – John Milton Cage

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Love is not blind — it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. – Julins Gordon

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I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, “Mother, what was war?” – Eve Merriam

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