Hola! Hope your work week is going well! All I can say is come on Friday–for some reason I’ve been super tired this week. I know that I am posting late but better late than never! However on another note, I wanted to share something that I am diggin right now–the poem Human Family by Maya Angelou. Reading this was just so fitting for the times that we live in. There is so much going on in the world right now that we all tend to forget that we are a human family, regardless of our ethnicity, class, or gender. It is disheartening to see and hear the bad news today but where there is bad you can believe good is surely not far behind. I read this poem in the book Open My Eyes, Open My Soul, by Yolanda King and Eloidia Tate; and the foreword by Coretta Scott King. It is a great compilation of poems, stories, and spoken words. Be sure to check it out. Enjoy!
Human Family
Poem by Dr. Maya Angelou
Read at the dedication of the Disney Millennium Village
I note the obvious differences
in the human family.
Some of us are serious,
some thrive on comedy.
Some declare their lives are lived
as true profundity,
and others claim they really live
the real reality.
The variety of our skin tones
can confuse, bemuse, delight,
brown and pink and beige and purple,
tan and blue and white.
I’ve sailed upon the seven seas
and stopped in every land.
I’ve seen the wonders of the world,
not yet one common man.
I know ten thousand women
called Jane and Mary Jane,
but I’ve not seen any two
who really were the same.
Mirror twins are different
although their features jibe,
and lovers think quite different thoughts
while lying side by side.
We love and lose in China,
we weep on England’s moors,
and laugh and moan in Guinea,
and thrive on Spanish shores.
We seek success in Finland,
are born and die in Maine.
In minor ways we differ,
in major we’re the same.
I note the obvious differences
between each sort and type,
but we are more alike, my friends
than we are unalike.
We are more alike, my friends,
than we are unalike.
We are more alike, my friends,
than we are unalike.
