3 Maya Angelou Quotes on History

Maya Angelou quotes on history

18. As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

27. History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

78. The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder- in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.