"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."
― Maya Angelou
Topic(s): Men
More From Maya Angelou
- "One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest."
- "Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."
- "If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die."
More In Men
- "Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations – wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco."― Edmund Burke
- "Bad men are full of repentance."― Aristotle
- "Men’s vows are women’s traitors!"― William Shakespeare