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Maya Angelou's poem highlights the diversity within the human family while also emphasizing our shared humanity. The poem notes differences in personalities, appearances, locations, and experiences, from skin tones and personalities to places lived and loved. However, it concludes that despite these variations, fundamentally "we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike."

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Human Family - Handout

Maya Angelou's poem highlights the diversity within the human family while also emphasizing our shared humanity. The poem notes differences in personalities, appearances, locations, and experiences, from skin tones and personalities to places lived and loved. However, it concludes that despite these variations, fundamentally "we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike."

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  • Human Family - Poem by Maya Angelou

Human Family - Poem by Maya Angelou

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.

Maya Angelou

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