1970s NEWS
Maya Angelou
Well, I think you get to a place where you realize you have nothing to lose nothing at all. Then then you have no reason to bind yourself. I had no reason to hold on, I found it stupid, to hold on too close myself up and hold within me nothing to protect nothing. So I decided to try everything, to keep myself wide open, to human beings, all human beings, seeing them as I understand them to be not as they wish they were. But as I understand them to be very truthfully, not idealistically, realistically. And seeing that if this person knew better, he would do better. That doesn't mean that I don't protect myself from his action. You know, and dislike him for example, but certainly to accept that that's a human being that too is human. I think that that when we lose the prejudices, fighting prejudices that say, a person like a multiple rapist, murderer, that's inhuman when we lose that and accept that that's human. That's human. Hopefully I'll never do it. But obviously if a human being did it, I have the potential, as human. And then conversely, one can say, oh, there's a great masterpiece written as a marvelous composition written by human being a human being only real debt. Then I'm a human being. I have that potential.