Logo
Quote by Maya Angelou
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. W

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them. – Maya Angelou

Other quotes by Maya Angelou

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. – Maya Angelou

Category:
Future
Author
Maya Angelou
Read Quote

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

Category:
Technology
Author
Maya Angelou
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Men
category

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men. – David Bailey

Category:
Men

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Category:
Men

Bloody men are like bloody buses — you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear. – Wendy Cope

Category:
Men

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. – Alexander Pope

Category:
Men

Random Quotes

Cleverness is not wisdom. – Euripides

Category:
Wisdom

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. – Roland Barthes

Category:
Society

Life is a combination of magic and pasta. – Federico Fellini

Category:
Food

I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you – you have to go out and get it! – Harvey Fierstein

Category:
work