Quote by Maya Angelou
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future

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

Other quotes by Maya Angelou

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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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: Im with you kid. Lets go. – Maya Angelou

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Life
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. – Maya Angelou

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Education
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Future
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Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future. – Ulysses S. Grant

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Future

The future is called “perhaps,” which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you. – Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending, 1957

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Future

Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future. – Daniel Libeskind

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Future

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it. – Bill Cosby

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Future

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Ive noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasnt going to do anyway so heres something more positive. Im going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school. – Arthur Smith

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Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell, the name will carry. – Bill Cosby

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Parents

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together. – Jacques Maritain

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Happiness comes from… some curious adjustment to life. – Hugh Walpole

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Happiness