Maya Angelou Quotes

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

They would make fine servants .... With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.

Beat and cuff your slave, keep him hungry and spiritless, and he will follow the chain of his master like a dog. Feed and clothe him well, work him moderately, surround him with physical comfort and dreams of freedom intrude.

The prostitutes worked for a pimp now. He was splendid and cruel. He was a god to them. He took their free will away from them, which was perfectly all right. They didn't want it anyway. It was as though they had surrendered themselves to Jesus, for instance, so they could live unselfishly and trustingly-except that they had surrendered to a pimp instead.

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

Slavery made the Negro as dependent upon the intelligence and foresight of his master as a soldier upon the will of his commander

Slavery is the rule. Freedom the exception.

I think it's a dangerous thing for anyone to have power over other people.

The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.

Sex, drugs, money, power etc. Just because you get to choose your master doesn't mean you aren't a slave.

We were his disposable things. Brought to him like cattle. Stripped of what made us sisters or daughters or children. There was nothing that he could take from us—our genes, our bones, our wombs—that would ever satisfy him. There was no other way that we would be free.

Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.

Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.

Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries.

Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds.

If you look at slavery across all human history, and you sort of strip away the packaging, whether it's racialized or religious-based, and you look at the actual core of the slavery, it's one person completely controlling another one.