"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the..." - Quote by Maya Angelou

“On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other.”

“When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.”

“We will sometimes have defeats in life but you can have defeats without being defeated, you could fail without being a failure. When you see failure and defeats as merely part of the process to get to when.”

“When I was in high school if you were black and lived in Detroit, and you wanted to drive down to Florida to go on vacation, you had to plan to drive all the way through, because you couldn't stop in a hotel all the way through South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. We can't even fathom such a thing now, can we?”

“Men blaspheme what they do not know.”

“If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument”

“This tribe of black gentry work more effectually against us, than the enemy's arms. They are a hundred times more dangerous to our liberties, and the great cause we are engaged in. It is much to be lamented that each State, long ere this, has not hunted them down as pests to society, and the greatest enemies we have to the happiness of America.”

“I think that the problem of the American negro goes beyond the principle of any organization whether it's a religious, political, or otherwise.”

“Gossiping is the plague of little towns.”