Human Family

-by Maya Angelou

We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.

We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.

I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.

In minor ways we differ, in major we're the same.

We seek success in Finland are born and die in Maine.

We love and lose in China, we weep on England's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores.

Mirror twins are different although their features jibe, and lovers think quite different thoughts while lying side by side.

I know ten thousand women called Jane and Mary Jane, but I've not seen any two who really were the same.

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.

The variety of our skin tones can confuse, bemuse, delight, brown and pink and beige and purple, tan and blue and white.

Some declare their lives are lived as true profundity, and others claim they really live the real reality.

Some of us are serious, some thrive on comedy.

I note the obvious differences in the human family.