The root cause of all the problems we have in the world today is ignorance of course. But most, polarization.

In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like.

If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.

Look for the beauty in things.

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

By love I don't mean indulgence. I do not mean sentimentality. And in this instance, I don't even mean romance. I mean that condition that allowed humans to dream of God.That condition that allowed the "dumb" to write spirituals and Russian songs and Irish lilts. That is love, and it's so much larger than anything I can conceive.