Maya Angelou Quotes About Humanity

• Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Death, Inspirational Life

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 02, 2010

• I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.

  Maya Angelou

  Brother, Sibling, Believe

• While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

  Maya Angelou

  Technology, Men, Ghana

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

• No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.

  Maya Angelou

  Ignorance, African American, Humanity

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Feb 21, 2010

• During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

  Maya Angelou

  Humanity, World, Citizens

  "Maya Angelou: In disaster, humanity shines". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. May 27, 2011.

• Reduce your humanity through what Jules Feiffer called little murders. The minute I hear someone trying to demean me, I know that that person means to have my life. And I will not give it to them. When a person commits these little murders, and then you catch him or her at it, he or she might say, "Oh, I didn't mean it." But make no mistake: It is an assassination attempt.

  Maya Angelou

  Mistake, Mean, Giving

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