Maya Angelou Quotes About Prejudice

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

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Powerful, Past

• The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hate

  MAYA ANGELOU (1969). “I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS”

• 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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