As A Human Family We Are More Alike Than We Are Unalike

The photos in the ad were shot with an iPhone, and the message, in the famous words of the late Maya Angelou is just as clear. ?I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.?

The ad spot, which aired on Friday during the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympic games in Rio builds on?Apple’s “Shot on iPhone” campaign and highlights the unique differences and similarities among us as humans. It celebrates our world as it is, especially at this time.

The ad narrates an excerpt of Dr. Angelou’s poem, The Human Family, but here is the full text below:

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.

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