"The whites were really brutishly ignorant, blitheringly,..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“Continue. Be loving and be strong. Be fierce and be kind. And don't give in and don't give up.'”

“If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.”

“I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.”

“Nowhere in history has the white man been brotherly toward anyone.”

“I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, 'Oh, you know, I can use this word because I'm black.'”

“I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.”

“Do you ever wonder if--well, if there are people living on the third planet?' 'The third planet is incapable of supporting life,' stated the husband patiently. 'Our scientists have said there's far too much oxygen in their atmosphere.”

“How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.”

“All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance”