My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The root cause of all the problems we have in the world today is ignorance of course. But most, polarization. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Let us live so we do not regret years of inertia and ignorance, so when we die we can say all of… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We are growing up. We are growing up! Out of the idiocies - the ignorances of racism and sexism and ageism and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When I forgive other people, I let them go, I free them from my ignorance. And as soon as I do, I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“As I ate she began the first of what we later called “my lessons in living.” She said that I must always… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I know, that since life is our most precious gift, and as far as we can be absolutely certain, it's given to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There is a lot of ignorance, and I don't mean intellectual ignorance. I mean people think that if you get something, it… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently — Maya Angelou Copy Share
If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
“You are very kind and very intelligent and those elements are not always found together. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, and my… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
“You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
Sunday, if I'm lucky, I'll go to church or listen to some good spiritual advice on the television or on the radio. I take… — Maya Angelou Copy Share
