4/12/2024 0 Comments Diversity quotes maya angelou![]() ![]() I found my own group of friends and together we weaved a tapestry. I came to Wake Forest on a full ride for theatre, academics, and need. They years went by and we got older, graduated high school, some of us went to college, some of us started families, some went into the career world. Skin color was a beautiful attribute that was to be admired and proud of, not something that divided us. We praised God together when we each got baptized, and we asked God questions when we each first experienced someone we love dying. We held each other’s hands when we had to have our tonsils or appendix removed. We went to each other’s choir concerts, band recitals, volleyball games, and plays. We were there to congratulate one another on first boyfriends and girlfriends, and to hold each other when we ended up single again the day before Valentine’s Day. ![]() We spent Easters, birthdays, Thanksgivings, and Christmases together. ![]() We played hide and seek, barbies, catch, Nintendo, monopoly, and charades together. We learned from each other how to make homemade flour tortillas, Eritrean Hambasha, chow mein. We had yellow strands, brown strands, tan strands, red strands, black strands, white strands, and every other color in between. Some Mexican, Some Black, Some White, Some Vietnamese, Some Eritrean, Some Choctaw Indian. You may not realize it about me at first glance, but I grew up in a children’s home in Texas with 27 girls. Maya Angelou once said, “We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.” I grew up in a rich, colorful, beautiful tapestry of life. ![]()
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