QuoteProject
It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.
Maya Angelou
ShareWTF𝕏

Interpretation

What this quote means

Building connections with diverse people fosters understanding and community.

Maya Angelou emphasizes the importance of knowing and connecting with those who live nearby, regardless of their backgrounds or races. By encouraging us to reach out and understand our neighbors, she highlights the role of community in overcoming prejudice and promoting harmony among different groups.

Themes

CommunityUnderstandingNeighborsDiversityConnection

In practice

Example use cases

In a speech about social justice, one might quote this to inspire local engagement.

More from Maya Angelou

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
Maya AngelouRead
I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed.
Maya AngelouRead
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.
Maya AngelouRead
I dreamt we walked together along the shore. We made satisfying small talk and laughed. This morning I found sand in my shoe and a seashell in my pocket. Was I only dreaming?
Maya AngelouRead
I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to.
Maya AngelouRead
I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people - one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion's den. You can't just play around with all those big cats - you've got to take somebody on.
Maya AngelouRead

Similar quotes

My husband is an opposition MP. Our political alliance may have fallen through, but our matrimonial alliance is intact.
Sushma SwarajRead
I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezRead
I believe marriage equality is a simple change that sends a powerful message. It is a chance for us to say, as a nation, to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex Australians: your love is equal under the law.
Bill ShortenRead
It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies.
Simon KuperRead
You have to be in accountable relationships across race. Accountable means that they're authentic, they're sustained, and that you do talk about racism, and you are able to be given feedback.
Robin DiangeloRead
Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.
Honore De BalzacRead

A little wisdom, now and then

Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.