Maya Angelou Quotes About Violence

• I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Life, Positive

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jan 26, 2013

• In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.

  Maya Angelou

  Grateful, Brutality, World

  Twitter post from Jan 26, 2013

• I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defence when and wherever needed.

  Maya Angelou

  Care, Proud, Able

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.47, Random House

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