"We allow our ignorance to prevail upon..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“I am always talking about the human condition and about American society in particular: what it is like to be human, what makes us weep, what makes us fall and stumble and somehow rise and go on from darkness into darkness and that darkness carpeted.”

“Be courageous, but not foolhardy. Walk proud as you are.”

“We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.”

“The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.”

“We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.”

“Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.”

“We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”

“If you meet a sectary, or a hostile partisan, never recognize the dividing lines; but meet on what common ground remains,--if onlythat the sun shines, and the rain rains for both; the area will widen very fast, and ere you know it the boundary mountains, on which the eye had fastened, have melted into air.”

“I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but admire even more his contributions to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and the body as one, not two separate things”