Maya Angelou Quotes About Brothers And Sisters

• If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.

  Maya Angelou

  Daughter, Mother, Brother

• I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.

  Maya Angelou

  Brother, Sibling, Believe

• Therefore we pledge to bind
  ourselves to one another, to embrace
  our lowliest, to keep company with
  our loneliest, to educate our illiterate,
  to feed our starving, to clothe our
  ragged, to do all good things,
  knowing that we are more than
  keepers of our brothers and sisters.
  We are our brothers and sisters

  Maya Angelou

  Brother, Knowing, Giving

  Maya Angelou, “The Black Family Pledge”

• I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.

  Maya Angelou

  Sister, Brother, Sibling

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

• The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are born great, others achieve it, some have it thrust upon them. In truth, the ways in which your character is built have to do with all three of those. Those around you, those you choose, and those who choose you.

  Maya Angelou

  Brother, Character, People

  "America's Renaissance Woman". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. January 22, 1997.

• Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.

  Maya Angelou

  Brother, Clear, Parity

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