Maya Angelou Quotes About Neighbors

• Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors are mysterious apparitions who come, go, and do strange unfathomable thing in and around the child, the region's only enfranchised citizen.

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Sibling, Real

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.7, Random House

• It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

  Maya Angelou

  Race, Doors, People

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

  Maya Angelou

  Ignorance, Littles, Prejudice

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

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